RE: Offline doubt - Password checking in Oracle..

If user is connected to Oracle and is able to use Your function, You shouldn't have any reason to check the old password.

or

If user is not connected when passing those parameters, let Oracle check, if the password is correct when (application) try to connect

or

If old password is a Sybase password, You should check it against Sybase db, not Oracle.

HTH
Jorma

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ext Arul kumar [mailto:rakumar_at_mahindrabt.com]
> Sent: 02 February, 2001 8:45
> To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L
> Subject: Offline doubt - Password checking in Oracle..
>
>
> Hi Gurus,
>
> I am working on a Sybase to Oracle migration project where i need to
> write a function which accepts username , old password and
> new password
> as parameters and modifies the account(Oracle Schema ) with the new
> password.
> If the password is correct, then only password modification
> should take
> place.
>
> Now, my question is :
>
> How to validate the user given password as correct or not?
> (becos Oracle
> stores password by encrypting it!).
>
> Any suggestions will be of great help to me.
>
> TIA,
> Arul.
>
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