Re: forcing user to change password

From: <suetim_at_globalnet.co.uk>
Date: 1998/04/07
Message-ID: <01bd5a92$35ed2160$fc567ec2@default>#1/1

It's in Oracle8 as part of the extended features of profiles.

There are some 3rd party tools to aid in this for Oracle7 (eg SQL*Secure from Braintree for one). Beware of these as I got to work one morning to find that ALL passwords had been changed including SYS and SYSTEM by such a utility!!!

Amit Aggarwal
> Hi guys:
> I was wondering if there is some Oracle utility so that we can force the
> users to change their
> passwords after a certain time. I looked into user profile but could not
> find anything.
> We are running Oracle 7.3.
> Does Oracle 8 handle this?
Received on Tue Apr 07 1998 - 00:00:00 CDT