Re: Help -- Passwords ?????????????????
From: Chris Reid <chrisr_at_mistral.co.uk>
Date: 1996/07/23
Message-ID: <4t3255$187_at_news.mistral.co.uk>#1/1
Date: 1996/07/23
Message-ID: <4t3255$187_at_news.mistral.co.uk>#1/1
In article <Duovx1.G8u_at_boss.cs.ohiou.edu>, austby_at_mail.ctenet.com (A Ustby) says:
>
>I'm the DBA at my shop. I have access to SYS id so I can change passwords for
>users. But I have an ORACLE user id that I don't know the password for and
>don't want to change the password. I just want to find out the current
>password for that user. SYS id also allows me to access the table DBA_USERS
>which I can view the fields USER_ID and PASSWORD. The PASSWORD field is
>encrypted. Is there a procedure/program that will decrypt the password.
>
>Thanks for any help.
>
>Art
>
I asked this question at an Oracle DBA ( at oracle) training course and
was told no ! - by a very oracle fellow at that.
Received on Tue Jul 23 1996 - 00:00:00 CEST