>"Your password file is called pwdINSTANCE.ora
>and is located in the some directory as your initINSTANCE.ora file.
>Usually: c:\orant\database\"
>
>Not necessarily true. The initSID.ora file can be anywhere. If you follow OFA guidelines, the initSID.ora file won't be in the oracle home directory.
>
>As far as I can tell, the password file is always created in %oracle_home%\database\ (ie generally C:\ORANT\DATABASE\ for versions prior to 8i)
>
>Les


Hello, Les.

I've searched high and low among my environment
variables and in the registry and found no references
to the password file.

Orapwd utility usage:
orapwd file=(fname) password=(password) entries=(users)
where
file - full name of password file (mand), in my case
it was d:\orant\database\ora.pwd

Orapwd should store this information somewhere for Oracle to
read. Anyway, i assume that a reference to the password file
is out there in the deep registry.


Best wishes
Kamil.