Re: DBA_USERS view

What you can do is:
copy encrypted password to some file
change user password to something else
run the tests you need
reset user password by copying encrypted password back

Tavo

Stefan Jahnke wrote:

> Hi,
>
> what information does the PASSWORD column in the DBA_USERS view provide.
> I know that it's the encrypted user password, but how can I actually use
> it ?
> For example: Can I reassign a password to a user via his encrypted
> password ?
> or: Can I test a logon with another user's encrpyted user password to
> test the logon ?
> I tried stuff like connect myuser/0CE92663BBC6FC34_at_MYDB, but that
> doesn't seem to work.
>
> TIA ...
>
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> Stefan Jahnke
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