Re: Password Changes

user$ is updated and why not just reset it to the known value, only if you happen to have the "encrypted" password, then you could set it back using alter user <userid> identified by values 'ENCRYPTED PASSWORD HERE';

otherwise you're outta luck.

joe

Burton, Laura L. wrote:

> When you alter a user's password, what table does it update?
>
> I need to 'restore' a password for a user back to what it was before I
> changed it, but do not know what it was.
>
> Any ideas?? Can this be done?
>
> Thanks,
> Laura
>

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