RE: Oracle 19c Password Change Issue

Ah, yes, that was it. We normally have that turned on, but not for this application.

Thank you!

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From: John Piwowar <jpiwowar_at_gmail.com> Sent: Monday, May 20, 2024 11:14 AM
To: Scott Canaan <srcdco_at_rit.edu>
Cc: Oracle-L Freelists <oracle-l_at_freelists.org> Subject: Re: Oracle 19c Password Change Issue

Did the migration enable/re-enable (intentionally or otherwise) password verification? Via the docs<https://docs.oracle.com/en/database/oracle/oracle-database/19/sqlrf/ALTER-USER.html#GUID-9FCD038D-8193-4241-85CD-2F4723B27D44__GUID-75DF3819-735E-43A8-A6C6-23EAD42BBC40> You can omit the REPLACE clause if you are setting your own password or you have the ALTER USER system privilege and you are changing another user's password. However, unless you have the ALTER USER system privilege, you must always specify the REPLACE clause if a password complexity verification function has been enabled [...]

Regards,

John P.

On Mon, May 20, 2024 at 7:41 AM Scott Canaan <dmarc-noreply_at_freelists.org<mailto:dmarc-noreply_at_freelists.org>> wrote: We just migrated a database from Red Hat 7 to Red Hat 8, both on the same version of Oracle (19.23). The customer is telling me that when their users try to change their password in the application, they get an ORA-28221: REPLACE not specified. I explained that the syntax in Oracle 19 to change a password is:

Alter user <username> identified by <new password> replace <old password>;

He claims that prior to the migration, that was not the case even though the Oracle version didn’t change. He is adamant that the migration “broke” something. I don’t see how. What is going on?

Scott Canaan ‘88
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