Re: How to know the user password?

Anyone with DBA privileges can alter any user, like SYSTEM, SYS.

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Terry Dykstra [TeamPS]
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Thomas Kyte wrote in message <361af8c9.96697423_at_192.86.155.100>...
>A copy of this was sent to violin.hsiao_at_mail.pouchen.com.tw (Violin)
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>On Tue, 29 Sep 1998 01:41:55 GMT, you wrote:
>
>>Hello,
>>I have a question,maybe you can help me!
>>I have several users on my database(7.3)
>>Of course each user with their own password.
>>But how to know every user's password?
>>
>>'Cause not all the users are created by me,
>>I don't know some users' pwd.
>>'Cause I can't change the original pwd,
>>the command is not proper for me:
>>ALTER USER user IDENTIFIED password.
>>
>>So,how to know the user's password?
>>PLEASE give me some tips,I'll appreciate for your help!
>>And please Cc to : violin.hsiao_at_mail.pouchen.com.tw,Thank you :)
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>
>thats the purpose of a password isn't it? If you could figure out what it
is,
>it would not be very meaningful.
>
>If you cannot alter the user to change their password to something you know
and
>you cannot get them to tell you what the password is -- you are out of
luck, you
>cannot get their passwords.
>
>
>
>Thomas Kyte
>tkyte_at_us.oracle.com
>Oracle Government
>Herndon VA
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Received on Tue Sep 29 1998 - 11:12:41 CDT