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ORA-01031: insufficient privileges

OBIEE-N-CoMar 26 2020 — edited Mar 29 2020

I am trying to install Oracle 11g XE on VPS from Vultur, I tried both Ubuntu 18 and CentOS 8,

After showing success message, i tried loging into SQL PLus> sys/password as sysdba, and I am getting below output...

SQL*Plus: Release 11.2.0.2.0 Production on Thu Mar 26 13:10:14 2020

Copyright (c) 1982, 2011, Oracle.  All rights reserved.

Enter user-name: sys as sysdba

Enter password:

ERROR:

ORA-01031: insufficient privileges

I am getting same error on both the OS, searched over the internet all the day and tried all i read,

added root to dba group.....no use

checke $ORACLE_HOME point sthe /XE folder

checked the permissions the the folder all most all the files have below permisions

drwxr-xr-x.  2 oracle dba  4096 Mar 26 11:40 bin

created sqlnet.ora file, its not created by default and changed SQLNET.AUTHENTICATION_SERVICES = (NTS) value to NTS, ALL, and also commented on it and no use.....

can anyone please give me a solution for this?

Thanks and regards,

Pratap N

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