Re: Verifying User/Password

Wayne,

Assuming you're on 8i, I hacked together a little script that might help you. The function itself is really inelegant--it creates and destroys a database link--but it's all I could think of short of an external procedure or maybe some weird Java thing.

    http://plnet.org/files/verify_user.sql

Caveat emptor: if I were a security officer, I wouldn't approve this approach, since a password should never get sent anywhere in clear text.

Let me know if it works for you.

Good luck
Bill

Wayne S Bellefeuille wrote:

> >From within a stored procedure, if I was given a userid and password (as
> parameters), is there any way to verify if this userid/password combination is
> valid on my database? That is, can I do something like a "connect" within a
> stored procedure or somehow use the encrypted password in the DBA_USERS view?
>
> Wayne Bellefeuille
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