Re: userid & Password

I think you can check for userid but not for password. What u can do is try to connect to database using the userid/password and if it returns error then trap it and show to user.
Ajay

Poosapati Varma wrote:

> Hi guys,
>
> How do we check for the userid and password within the
> database?
>
> Say for example i have a login screen on the client
> machine running in VB when i grab the username and
> password, How do i check with the username and
> password within the database is there a way by oracle
> to do that?
>
> Can anyone give me some tips on this.
>
> Varma Poosapati.
>
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