Comments on: How To Change/Restore User Password in 11G

By: Mamta

Mamta — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 02:54:27 +0000

Very nice article.Thanks alot!!!

By: Sasi

Sasi — Wed, 10 Aug 2011 06:51:33 +0000

Thanks Amit for this post and its a good one.

By: Donat Callens

Donat Callens — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 09:08:52 +0000

see this blog for a very useful way to retrieve “by value” password independently of the db version:
https://davidalejomarcos.wordpress.com/2010/10/20/how-to-retrieve-the-hash-value-for-a-password-in-oracle-11g/

By: ora 01017

ora 01017 — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 12:37:29 +0000

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By: Martin Berger

Martin Berger — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 23:00:01 +0000

Maybe you want to check orapw11g:
http://yaping123.wordpress.com/2008/10/23/orapw11g/
just to compare and complete.

By: Diwakar

Diwakar — Sat, 22 Nov 2008 02:40:56 +0000

Very good document, keep it up!!

By: Amit

Amit — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:39:41 +0000

Thanks Laurent for the information. I just tried and I was not able to use the lower case password even with sec_case_sensitive_logon parameter to false. And now password field is empty

SQL> select password,spare4 from user$ where name='AMIT';

PASSWORD                       SPARE4
------------------------------ ----------------------------------------------------------------------
                               S:2D058976AE8FAD8ECFCDB93835ACEE94C83EDE19169209155BB81FEE7DBB

So I reset the password again.
I have added a small note and referred your link too. And yes, Oracle never supported resetting password by “identified by values” command.

By: Laurent Schneider

Laurent Schneider — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:07:02 +0000

Please not that "IDENTIFIED BY VALUES" is not supported and not documented, so it may change behavior in a next release

By: Laurent Schneider

Laurent Schneider — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:05:54 +0000

if you want to switch back and force with the sec_case_sensitive_logon parameter, you should use identified by values ‘S:spare4;password’.

http://laurentschneider.com/wordpress/2008/03/alter-user-identified-by-values-in-11g.html