Verifying User/Password

>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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