dba_users has some spots. The identified by values clause now causes an ora-00600. (Turns out this trick has never been supported by oracle). It works from 11g also: select 'alter user &&v_user identified by values '||''''||b.password||''''||';' from dba_users a, sys.user$ b where a.user_id = b.user# and a.username = upper('&&v_user'); DESC DBA_USERS Name ---------------------------------------- ... EXTERNAL_NAME PASSWORD_VERSIONS EDITIONS_ENABLED AUTHENTICATION_TYPE Joel Patterson Database Administrator 904 727-2546 -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of D'Hooge Freek Sent: Wednesday, November 30, 2011 10:55 AM To: niall.litchfield@xxxxxxxxx; stmontgo@xxxxxxxxx Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Migrate users from 10-11 Niall, It is true that the hash changed in 11 (with case sensitive passwords now), but the old hashes are still accepted. I think there is even a flag that tells you if this the password is using the old or the new method. Kind regards, Freek D'Hooge Uptime Oracle Database Administrator email: freek.dhooge@xxxxxxxxx tel +32(0)3 451 23 82 http://www.uptime.be disclaimer: www.uptime.be/disclaimer -----Original Message----- From: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Niall Litchfield Sent: woensdag 30 november 2011 16:48 To: stmontgo@xxxxxxxxx Cc: oracle-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Migrate users from 10-11 The password hash changes in 11! Why didn't you just allow datapump to create the users (or whisper it not in Gath) just perform a database upgrade? On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 3:11 PM, steve montgomerie <stmontgo@xxxxxxxxx>wrote: > Greetings Oracle List! > We're moving an Oracle Database to a new Server upgrading from 10 to > 11 with Datapump. Can we migrate the schema's without > knowing/changing the passwords? -- Niall Litchfield Oracle DBA http://www.orawin.info -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l