Yes - pretty common process most places I've been too. Best to work with the DBAs and have them do it during a regular patching cycle when (if) you have the system stopped and let the DBAs be responsible for updating it both in Oracle and in the conf file. just save off a copy of the conf file before they go into it so that you have a copy of everything else.
----- Original Message ----- From: "michael campbell" <soup...@hotmail.com> To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 11:58:51 AM Subject: Re: Oracle people change password without warning ** pretty normal procedure when locking down environments,(stigging) can't have a password that does not expire. What ever they set it to, log into outlook and set yourself a reminder, have remedy send an email a couple days before it expires too if you like. so you can then coordinate with dba to change it togethor. mike Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 09:50:45 -0700 From: lj.longw...@gmail.com Subject: Re: Oracle people change password without warning To: arslist@ARSLIST.ORG ** Alan, It is my understanding that changing the PW in the conf file, and restarting remedy will re-encrpyt the password once started up...so changing it in the conf file I believe is a valid option....but honestly, a policy that intentionally takes a service offline because of mandatory without warning password changes sounds a bit insane. On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 9:42 AM, Alan Truelove < truelove.a...@yahoo.com > wrote: ** Remedy 7.6.04/Oracle installation - at a Govt facility that shall remain nameless, the Oracle db admins are mandated to change password at intervals. -- doing this without warning. This means that one cannot access the Remedy tools. (And change the Oracle password stored there), Catch 22. I had proposed using API to modify the Oracle password field in the appropriate tab of the ' server info form' - but this it seems is not good enough-the ars.conf file has to be changed. Any suggestions? _ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" and have been for 20 years_ _ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" and have been for 20 years_ _ARSlist: "Where the Answers Are" and have been for 20 years_ _______________________________________________________________________________ UNSUBSCRIBE or access ARSlist Archives at www.arslist.org "Where the Answers Are, and have been for 20 years"
