I'll assume you got access to user$, its still in there, but now the dba_users view just forces a NULL. joe _______________________________________ Joe Testa, Oracle Certified Professional Senior Engineering & Administration Lead (Work) 614-677-1668 (Cell) 614-312-6715 From: Joan Hsieh <joan.hsieh@xxxxxxxxx> To: oracle_l <ORACLE-L@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: 05/18/2010 02:59 PM Subject: password columns in oracle 11g Sent by: oracle-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Hi Listers, In oracle 10g, if we need to refresh the test database from prod database, we reserve all the users/schema's password on test databases by extract the encrypted password column from dba_users and reset the password by using the command " alter user identified by values " "; from the pre refresh process after refresh. In oracle 11g, the password column in dba_users is null, it seems we lost the ability to reserve the original password. I have opened the SR with oracle for over 3 weeks, they still didn't give me any solutions. I am wondering if someone knows better. Thanks in advance, Joan -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l