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ORA-28000: the account is locked for SCOTT


First time you try to login as scott/tiger, it would throw an error as shown below,



To get rid of this error, login as SYSTEM for password use the password that was speficied during step3 of this installation process.

Once logged in, use the sql statement below to unlock scott user.

Once this is done, login as scott tiger and it should work. It might as to change the old password with a new one, In this case use "tiger" as old password.

Comments

Khaidem Poland said…
I am able to access to Scott user :)
January 28, 2013 at 1:40 PM
chandini said…
system user itslf locked.........what to do sir please help
February 9, 2013 at 2:48 PM
Roopam Verma said…
Hello sir....this scott user doesn't access in my laptop....and i m also doing the same thing as u mention above


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ERROR:
ORA-01017: invalid username/password; logon denied



Connected to:
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining options

SQL> alter user scott account unlock
2 ;

User altered.

SQL>
SQL>
SQL>
SQL>
SQL> show user
USER is "SYSTEM"
SQL>
SQL>
SQL>
December 15, 2014 at 12:12 PM
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