Re: Adding some random characters to Oracle password

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>>I answered this question over a year ago in relation to SQL*Plus in my
>>newsletter http://www.petefinnigan.com/news_letter_001.pdf - In there I
>>renamed the SQL*Plus binary on the client and on the server and the
>>values in v$session did not change. In other words Oracle networking
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>Well, I just tested it myself a few minutes ago (renamed sqlplusw.exe to
>jeff.exe and program was reported as jeff.exe. This may be dependant on OS
>and/or version. I'm running a 9.2.0.5.0 instance on a Windows 2003 server and
>a Windows XP SP2 client.
>

Hi Jeff,

yes probably, you can see that it didn't change for my test but later versions of Oracle and OS's can make a difference.

Thanks for letting us know.

kind regards

Pete

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