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A useful enhancement in 12cR2 is that password files are automatically synchronized in a Data Guard environment:

[oracle@uhesse1 ~]$ dgmgrl sys/oracle_4U@cdb1
DGMGRL for Linux: Release 12.2.0.1.0 - Production on Tue Jan 10 07:38:15 2017

Copyright (c) 1982, 2016, Oracle and/or its affiliates.  All rights reserved.

Welcome to DGMGRL, type "help" for information.
Connected to "cdb1"
Connected as SYSDBA.
DGMGRL> show configuration;

Configuration - myconf

  Protection Mode: MaxPerformance
  Members:
  cdb1   - Primary database
    cdb1sb - Physical standby database 

Fast-Start Failover: DISABLED

Configuration Status:
SUCCESS   (status updated 31 seconds ago)

DGMGRL> exit
[oracle@uhesse1 ~]$ sqlplus sys/oracle_4U@cdb1 as sysdba

SQL*Plus: Release 12.2.0.1.0 Production on Tue Jan 10 07:38:49 2017

Copyright (c) 1982, 2016, Oracle.  All rights reserved.


Connected to:
Oracle Database 12c Enterprise Edition Release 12.2.0.1.0 - 64bit Production

SQL> alter user sys identified by oracle;

User altered.

SQL> connect sys/oracle@cdb1 as sysdba
Connected.
SQL> connect sys/oracle@cdb1sb as sysdba
Connected.

I have just changed the password of sys on the Primary and it got automatically also changed on the Standby. In earlier versions that had to be done manually, typically by replacing the password file on the standby with a new copy from the primary. One little thing less to keep in mind now 🙂