Re: Automating repetitive user administrative tasks

• "Barker, Tony" <tbarker_at_doit.state.in.us> on 01/10/02 11:15:47 -0800

> We have an application that is using Oracle user-ids and passwords for
> authentication and restrictions. I am looking for a secured, selective,
> user-interface way of unlocking, resetting and expiring passwords so the DBA
> staff can offload this rather mundane but frequent requests. I would like
> to do it through an oracle stored procedure where the user-id and password
> would be provided by a authorized user and the stored procedure would
> unlock, change the password, and expire the user.
>
> Is this possible or is it much easier to use a Unix script?

This will be much simpler to get done via DBI. Main question is where the userid/password data will be comming from (e.g., local users at the command line, web).

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