oradba.exe and ORA-12638
256719Aug 30 2006 — edited Aug 30 2006what is oradba.exe and what does it do?
it does not appear to be documented anywhere (on tahiti, it only shows up in an unrelated directory listing example.
i ran it with a healthy database, got errors about not being able to add a group and a user -- so I'm sure it's related to OS authentication and the ORA_DBA group
after running it (but not before) I was unable to connect to the database with any tools (other than the home page), getting ORA-12638 until i commented out SQLNET.AUTHENTICATION_SERVICES = (NTS) in sqlnet.ora