Re: database password

From: <sybrandb_at_hccnet.nl>
Date: Thu, 17 May 2007 15:53:09 +0200
Message-ID: <vdno43pee46ldpnf8g4b8f6jgbhvohq87a@4ax.com>

On Thu, 17 May 2007 07:38:28 +0200, Frank van Bortel <frank.van.bortel_at_gmail.com> wrote:

>That's the reason why 'you cannot change the password on that account':
>all the scripts that rely on it...

Yeah sure, have the bugger leave and you are forced to change all your scripts. Been there before.
Or you have a hardcoded password in your Pro*Pascal programs, and need to recompile all of them to change the password.

That is the moment you start to use external authentication.

-- 
Sybrand Bakker
Senior Oracle DBA

Received on Thu May 17 2007 - 08:53:09 CDT