Re: passwords in different instances

From: Yong Huang <yong321_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Jun 2009 19:33:06 -0700 (PDT)
Message-ID: <62414.9736.qm_at_web80601.mail.mud.yahoo.com>


> that should work as a full import does a alter user username identified by
> values, and I have taken the hex value passed thru a password cracker and
> found a password that with the exact same hex value on a different db and it
> worked.
> all this is 10g and below, 11g is a different animal with case sensitive
> password and the such.
>
> joe

Joe, I think you're referring to the default behavior when a new user is created in 11g. In many cases involving "migrating" a user from an older version as with exp and imp, the password is still case insensitive. You can check dba_users.password_versions to confirm this.

Yong Huang       

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