Special Characters in password

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nibble
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Special Characters in password

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Hi.

When using the Oracle Enterprice stage, the -dboption don't tolerate $ in the Oracle schema password. Has this anything to do with NLS_LANG settings?

Error message:
Incorrect -dbotpions option list; it failed on Expected "," or "}", gor: "$", line 1.

Why does the -dboption care about special characters in the password ???

This is OK if I view data, og use Serverjobs Oracle stage.

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Post by ray.wurlod »

Doesn't the Search utility work for you? Indeed, your subject would serve as an ideal search topic. Curiously you're not the first to have encountered this.
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Well, I have used some time searching with no luck.

Therefore I created a new post.

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Re: Search

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I think I found the solution.
Case closed.
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Post by ray.wurlod »

Curious.

An "all terms" search for "special character password" yielded eight hits for me, of which one is marked as resolved and two as "workaround exists".

Try again?
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Post by philds »

Hello,

I got the same error message but because I had numbers in the password (4everyng). The error is not consistent : some passwords with numbers work some other don't. A password could work on a server and not work on another.

I got 2 fixes for that, an interm fix first (ecase 84857) , whose readme file was saying it fixes issues with "$" and "#" in the oracle password. This interim patch had a server piece and a client piece.

Then a day later I got another fix (server only) which also fixes the issue with numbers in the oracle passwd.
The patch is called : patch_105068 (it's included in 7.5.3, so you only need it for 7.5.1 and 7.5.2).


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