rman connection authorization

 Logged on to the box with a local user that is a member of both the
local Administrators group and the local ora_dba group.

Connection to db with sqlplus, using local credentials, is quite happy:

C:\TEMP>sqlplus "/ as sysdba"
SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Tue Jun 13 12:23:12 2006
Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.

Connected to:
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production

But connecting to rman requires me to spell it out ...

C:\TEMP>rman target / nocatalog

Recovery Manager: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Tue Jun 13
12:23:26 2006

Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.

RMAN-00571: ========================
RMAN-00569: ==== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ====
RMAN-00571: ======================================
RMAN-00554: initialization of internal recovery manager package failed
RMAN-04005: error from target database:
ORA-01031: insufficient privileges

C:\Documents and Settings\1oraadmin>rman target sys/*********
Recovery Manager: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Tue Jun 13
12:50:38 2006
Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.
connected to target database: EPSREP (DBID=2061389341)
RMAN> quit
Recovery Manager complete.

So, what am I overlooking? I've never before had a problem with "rman
target / nocatalog"

Where did you get NOCATALOG?

just: rman target / will get you in.
--
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
(replace x with u to respond)
Puget Sound Oracle Users Group
www.psoug.org

Well, this just gets more curious ..

Microsoft Windows [Version 5.2.3790]
(C) Copyright 1985-2003 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\1oraadmin>sqlplus "/ as sysdba"

SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Thu Jun 15 08:21:33 2006

Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.


Connected to:
Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining options

SQL> exit

=== so, things are correctly set up for connecting with local sysdba
credentials

Disconnected from Oracle Database 10g Enterprise Edition Release
10.2.0.1.0 - Pr
oduction
With the Partitioning, OLAP and Data Mining options

C:\Documents and Settings\1oraadmin>rman target /

Recovery Manager: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Thu Jun 15
08:23:41 2006

Copyright (c) 1982, 2005, Oracle. All rights reserved.

RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00569: =============== ERROR MESSAGE STACK FOLLOWS ===============
RMAN-00571: ===========================================================
RMAN-00554: initialization of internal recovery manager package failed
RMAN-04005: error from target database:
ORA-01031: insufficient privileges

C:\Documents and Settings\1oraadmin>

but rman doesn't like it.

For the record, Oracle support finally came up with a solution, but it
raises still more questions. The box had two Oracle homes on it, one
for a single 10g datbase and one for the 10g oem agent. In the PATH
environment variable, the agent home preceeded the db home. Flipping
that -- putting the db home first -- solved the problem and allowed
'c:\rman / target' to connect as it is supposed to. Of course, that
raises the question of why path ordering should matter in this
particular issue ....

Must be something in that home that is different... maybe it couldn't
find the correct $ORACLE_HOME/dbs/passwd... ?