Re: Passwords in DBA_USERS (Oracle 12c)
From: Mladen Gogala <gogala.mladen_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2016 21:09:37 -0400
Message-ID: <577DABD1.3010404_at_gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 6 Jul 2016 21:09:37 -0400
Message-ID: <577DABD1.3010404_at_gmail.com>
On 07/06/2016 08:54 PM, Ryan January wrote:
> As far as I'm aware, it was done to support case sensitive passwords.
> If it wasn't officially documented by Oracle, it's been unofficially documented for years by the commit it at large.
Unofficially documented? I like the concept. It's similar to using the
number 42 to answer any question. As for the case sensitive passwords,
it doesn't make sense, since hashes of the lower case letters and upper
case letters would be different. I may accept that the answer to the
question why was that change not documented and explained is 42.
-- Mladen Gogala Oracle DBA Tel: (347) 321-1217 -- http://www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-lReceived on Thu Jul 07 2016 - 03:09:37 CEST