RE: DBA_USERS view

2001-04-03 Thread Jacques Kilchoer
Title: RE: DBA_USERS view -Original Message- From: Stefan Jahnke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] what information does the PASSWORD column in the DBA_USERS view provide. I know that it's the encrypted user password, but how can I actually use it ? For example: Can I reassign

Re: DBA_USERS view

2001-04-03 Thread Rodd Holman
You can use it to swap out a user's password for diagnostics. An example is listed in the Oracle DBA Handbook. Basically you can create a temp table to store the value: CREATE TABLE TEMP_USER AS SELECT USERNAME, PASSWORD FROM DBA_USERS WHERE USERNAME = 'XYZ'; Then alter the user for

RE: DBA_USERS view

2001-03-30 Thread Sinardy Xing
Hi, You can try http://www.uaex.edu/srea/ This is a script for you to login as other user without using their password, basically that script change the whatever user password to something else and start login with that new password and change it back when you done what ever you do. User can