Re: Password management in Oracle 8

thtsang_at_my-deja.com wrote:
>
> Hello,
>
> I have questions concerning password management / access management in
> Oracle8,
>
> 1. Is there any setting to disable a user account if the user has
> repeated login failure? e.g., disable the account if 3 continuous fails?
>
> 2. Do Oracle keep any password history? We want to know the 3 previous
> password. At least, we want to prevent the user change the password to
> the original one.
>
> Or these should be done by the frontend application?
>
> Thanks very much.
>
> Anthony Tsang
>
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> Before you buy.

Check out the password options in profiles - for the password history you may need to write a password verify function

HTH

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