Problem Note 41921: ERROR: ORACLE connection error: ORA-01017: invalid username/password; logon denied.
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The following error can be issued with SAS® 9.2 when passwords have been encrypted by PWENCODE. The same code may have worked with SAS 9.1.
ERROR: ORACLE connection error: ORA-01017: invalid username/password; logon denied.
SAS 9.2 decoding algorithm was changed to correct the incorrect way SAS 9.1 was parsing through passed strings. It did not strip anything, but if it hit something that it did not like, it thought it was done and just continued on. In SAS 9.2, the error checking has been tightened up. There is no stripping, and it expects the length being passed to be the length of the password to handle.
This error occurs because this string now contains trailing blanks whereas in SAS 9.1 it did not.
The workaround is to use the symputx() function to read in the password which strips off the blanks.
Click the Hot Fix tab in this note to access the hot fix for this issue.
Operating System and Release Information
| Product Family | Product | System | SAS Release | |
| Reported | Fixed* | |||
| SAS System | Base SAS | Microsoft® Windows® for 64-Bit Itanium-based Systems | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter 64-bit Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise 64-bit Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Server | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| Microsoft Windows NT Workstation | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard Edition | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| Microsoft Windows XP Professional | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| Windows Vista | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| Windows Vista for x64 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| 64-bit Enabled AIX | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| 64-bit Enabled HP-UX | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| 64-bit Enabled Solaris | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| HP-UX IPF | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| Linux | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| Linux on Itanium | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| OpenVMS Alpha | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| Solaris for x64 | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||
| Tru64 UNIX | 9.1 TS1M3 SP4 | |||