Lost Of SYSADMIN Password . How To Know The Password Of The SYSADMIN User

Oracle Application Object Library - Version 11.5.10.0 and later

GOAL

You lost the password of the user SYSADMIN. How can you identify the password for the SYSADMIN user ?

SOLUTION

The password of SYSADMIN is encrypted in the database, so if you forget it, it is not possible to retrieve it.

The only way is to change it. To change it, you can apply one of the following steps :


1 - log with a user which has the System Administrator responsibility, Go to the define User forms ,
then change the password by typing the new password in the field Password.

2 -From unix , run FNDCPASS to change the password :
FNDCPASS / 0 Y system/ USER sysadmin
Also please review the Note 423274.1 for changing the SYSADMIN password using FNDCPASS.