Unlock Oracle Users and Make Their Password Unexpirable
Handling Expired Oracle Users When an Oracle database user account expires, it needs to be unlocked and assigned to a profile that ensures password expiration does not occur. Follow these steps to handle expired Oracle users. Step 1: Create a Profile with Unlimited Password Lifetime To prevent password expiration, create a profile with unlimited password lifetime: CREATE PROFILE APP_PROFILE LIMIT PASSWORD_LIFE_TIME UNLIMITED; Step 2: Assign the Profile to the User Assign the newly created profile to the affected user: ALTER USER APP_USER PROFILE APP_PROFILE; Step 3: Reset Password for Expired Users If a user is already expired, their password must be reset: ALTER USER APP_USER IDENTIFIED BY same_password; Step 4: Retrieve the Existing Password (If Necessary) ...