Hi Graham,
You could get Oracle to do the work for you by trying to connect
to your database with the user's login name and password. If yu
succeed then the password was valid, otherwise it isn't. That way
you don't need to know the encryption algorithm.
John.
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I don't think you are supposed to be able decrypt the passwords. In fact, I
would hope that you can't or Oracle would have a big problem.
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I don't think you are supposed to be able decrypt the passwords. In fact, I
would hope that you can't or Oracle would have a big problem.
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yourself using a standard algorithm.
Paul
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I need the algorithm so I can encrypt a password. The Tomcat Realm would
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I need the algorithm so I can