RE: user password expire

From: Jamadagni, Rajendra <rajendra.jamadagni_at_espn.com>
Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2000 11:05:28 -0500
Message-Id: <10694.123085@fatcity.com>

Lisa

This is from my 8i Release 2 Doco ...

The following statement causes user FRED's password to expire:

ALTER USER fred PASSWORD EXPIRE;

If you cause a database user's password to expire with PASSWORD EXPIRE, the user (or the DBA) must change the password before attempting to log in to the database following the expiration. However, tools such as SQL*Plus allow you to change the password on the first attempted login following the expiration.

Note: Oracle expects a different timestamp for each resetting of a particular password. If you reset one password multiple times within one second (for example, by cycling through a set of passwords using a script), Oracle may return an error message that the password cannot be reused. For this reason, Oracle Corporation recommends that you avoid using scripts to reset passwords. Received on Tue Nov 28 2000 - 10:05:28 CST