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[OCI] The SYS password change failing with ORA-65048/ORA-17503 (Doc ID 2555658.1)

Last updated on SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

Applies to:

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A to N/A [Release 1.0]
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

The SYS password change will fail with ORA-17503

SQL> ALTER user SYS identified by OOracle1234##;
ALTER user SYS identified by OOracle1234##
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-65048: error encountered when processing the current DDL statement in
pluggable database
ORA-17503: ksfdopn: Failed to open file
ORA-17503: ksfdopn:2 Failed to open file
+DATA/ORCL_IAD1KH/PASSWORD/pwdorcl_iad1kh.259.9990341771
ORA-15173: entry 'pwdorcl_iad1kh.259.9990341771' does not exist in directory 'PASSWORD'
ORA-06512: at line 4
ORA-06512: at "SYS.X$DBMS_DISKGROUP", line 665



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