Creating Password Files
Use the Password Utility ORAPWD to create password files. ORAPWD is
automatically installed with the Oracle8i Utilities. Password files are located in the
ORACLE_BASE\ORACLE_HOME\DATABASE directory and are named
PWDSID.ORA, where SID identifies the Oracle8i database instance.

 2 . Set the INIT.ORA file parameter REMOTE_LOGIN_PASSWORDFILE to
EXCLUSIVE or SHARED. Definitions for all possible values are described
below:
Element Description
EXCLUSIVE Specifies that only one instance can use the password file and that the
password file contains names other than SYS and INTERNAL. Oracle8i
looks in the registry for the value of the ORA_SID_PWFILE parameter.
If a value is unspecified, it looks in the registry for the value of the
ORA_PWFILE parameter, which points to a file containing the
INTERNAL password as well as user names, passwords, and
privileges. If that is not set, it uses the default of ORACLE_
BASE\ORACLE_HOME\DATABASE\PWDSID.ORA.