ORA-01017 Invalid Username/Password when connecting to 11g database from 9i client

Question

I\'m trying to connect to a schema on 11g (v11.2.0.1.0) from a PC with 9i (v9.2.0.1) client. It seems to connect fine to some schemas, but not this one - it comes back with

Answer 1

I know this post was about 11g, but a bug in the 12c client with how it encrypts passwords may be to blame for this error if you decide to use that one and you:

• Don't have the password case-sensitivity issue (i.e. you tried ALTER SYSTEM SET SEC_CASE_SENSITIVE_LOGON = FALSE and resetting the password and still doesn't work),
• Put quotes around your password in your connection string and it still doesn't help,
• You've verified all of your environmental variables (ORACLE_HOME, PATH, TNS_ADMIN), and the TNS_ADMIN registry string at HKLM\Software\Oracle\KEY_OraClient12Home is in place,
• You've verified your connection string and user name/password combination works in Net Manager, and
• You can connect using SQL*Plus, Oracle SQL Developer using the same credentials.

All the basic checks.

Fix: Try setting HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\FIPSAlgorithmPolicy\Enabled to 0 in the registry (regedit) to disable FIPS.

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https://community.oracle.com/thread/2557592?start=0&tstart=0

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