I forgot that you could do that. I never liked remote os authentication (is it still possible to easily fool a client into thinking you're someone else?), and I would like it even less if it allowed you to sign on as SYSDBA without a password. The best security is still having different passwords for everything, and if there are too many passwords to remember, just write them down on a post-it note stuck to your monitor.
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> You could logon that way if Oracle allowed it.
>
> sqlplus "/@dv03 as sysdba"
>
> two different linux boxes, same OS account name on both boxes.
>
> While the previous will result in an ORA-1997 ( sorry, you
> can't remotely
> logon as SYSDBA ), the following works just fine:
>
> sqlplus /@dv03
