Re: Rman and Insufficient Privileges Error

You seem to try to connect to the database without a catalog. Try connecting as sys.

Alex Ivascu
www.ivascu.com

"Mark" <gojira_at_lizardlair.no-spam.com> wrote in message news:J56oc.9178$p24.2812_at_newssvr23.news.prodigy.com...
> We have a vendor supplied database system running on
> Windows 2000 with Oracle8. Our network admin is
> wanting to do backups on the databases and for some
> reason the vendor isn't being helpful. Anyway, we're
> trying to use rman with the command:
>
> rman target 'system/<pswd>@mcho'
>
> And we get this error: ORA-01031: insufficient privilegs
>
> No one at our site knows Oracle (we didn't set up the
> server and we don't have any Oracle docs) and we're at
> a loss as to how to get this to work.
>
> Any helpful suggestions would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mark
Received on Tue May 11 2004 - 12:42:42 CDT