Re: Can ORACLE DBA tell me forgotten password?

From: Jan Wortelboer <janw_at_fwi.uva.nl>
Date: Wed, 17 Feb 1993 21:05:37 GMT
Message-ID: <1993Feb17.210537.26143_at_fwi.uva.nl>


oracle_at_llnl.gov (Oracle) writes:

>We have ORACLE running on VMS and UNIX as well as HPUX. As far as we know, our team of three
>DBA's there is no way to decode this password. Our DBA guru has 5 years experience on ORACLE.
>We think you're out of luck..

If it is ORACLE 5 it's no problem, i once hacked a program to generate password's given the simple crypted strings. ORACLE wasn't all to happy, they lost a large account.

Jan.

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