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Connect as SYSDBA on 11.2 Cloned Home Gives "ORA-1031: Insufficient Privileges" Error (Doc ID 1061788.1)

Last updated on FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Applies to:

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure - Database Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Cloud Exadata Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Exadata Express Cloud Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Cloud Schema Service - Version N/A and later
Oracle Database Backup Service - Version N/A and later
Information in this document applies to any platform.
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Symptoms

Oracle11g Release 2 (11.2) database software has been cloned using the following syntax:

$ORACLE_HOME/perl/bin/perl clone.pl ORACLE_BASE="target_oracle_base" ORACLE_HOME="target_oracle_home" ORACLE_HOME_NAME="target_home_name"


After cloning has completed, connecting to a database as SYSDBA gives the following error:

ORA-01031: insufficient privileges


The $ORACLE_HOME/rdbms/lib/config.c contains the following lines:

#define SS_DBA_GRP ""
#define SS_OPER_GRP ""
#define SS_ASM_GRP ""


NOTE
: 11.2 on Linux and HP-UX use config.c, but 11.2 on Solaris and AIX use config.s (see <Note:50507.1> for more information about this)

Cause

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