ORA-01031: insufficient privileges (login as sysdba)
It's a been a while since my last post. As you may know, I normally blog about solutions that are hard to find that haven't already been blogged about. Here's my latest encounter... I was receiving this error when trying to login via "sqlplus / as sysdba" after completing an Oracle 11gR2 binary install using the "database home clone" methodology. I checked that the binary permissions were set correctly, which they were. Then finally I stumbled across someone else that had had this problem where the $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/lib/config.c file wasn't configured properly. Copyright (c) 1982, 2011, Oracle. All rights reserved. ERROR: ORA-01031: insufficient privileges So I did the following: cd <ORACLE_HOME>/rdbms/lib cp -p config.c config.c.bak vi config.c (with below changes) relink oracle config.c before changes: /* SS_DBA_GRP defines the UNIX group ID for sqldba adminstrative access. */ /* Refer to the Inst