It seems at times when roles are assigned they are not assigned as DEFAULT role to a user. The reason for seems to be the following: In the table sys.user$ there is a column called “DEFROLE” which indicates if the role will be a default role or not. The possible values that seem to be…
In 11g the Oracle the hash password is no longer stored in DBA_USERS, it is stored in SYS.USER$ table in the column “PASSWORD” and “SPARE4”. So there are different ways password can be set depending on if “PASSWORD” and “SPARE4” are set in SYS.USER$ and what you want PASSWORD_VERSIONS to be. If only “SPARE4” is…
In 11g Oracle supports password to be case sensitive. But the password can be case insensitive depending on value of “PASSWORD_VERSIONS” and “sec_case_sensitive_logon”. In 11g dba_users view has a new column called “PASSWORD_VERSIONS”, it can have 3 possible values “10G”, “10G 11G”, “11G”. Below shows what they mean along with parameter “sec_case_sensitive_logon”. Scenario when the…
When a user name has a profile that has a password verify function set and the user tries to change the password using “ALTER USER” without the REPLACE clause, and also the user doesn’t have ALTER USER privilege Oracle will generate the “ORA-28221: REPLACE not specified” error message. So the user needs to include the…
One of the ways to extend the password of an expiring account is to change the profile of the user. — show the current user profile which shows the password expires 180 days SQL> select * FROM dbA_profiles where profile = ‘APPLICATIONS’; PROFILE RESOURCE_NAME RESOURCE LIMIT —————————— ——————————– ——– —————————————- .. APPLICATIONS FAILED_LOGIN_ATTEMPTS PASSWORD UNLIMITED…
SQL> SHOW PARAMETER SEC_CASE_SENSITIVE_LOGON NAME TYPE VALUE ———————————— ———– —————————— sec_case_sensitive_logon boolean TRUE SQL> SQL> ALTER SYSTEM SET SEC_CASE_SENSITIVE_LOGON = FALSE; System altered.
Now Oracle has a quick way to find users with detault password. SQL> SELECT * FROM dba_users_with_defpwd; And here is the output: USERNAME —————————— DIP MDSYS WK_TEST CTXSYS OLAPSYS OUTLN EXFSYS SCOTT MDDATA ORDPLUGINS ORDSYS XDB LBACSYS SI_INFORMTN_SCHEMA WMSYS
