> that should work as a full import does a alter user username identified by > values, and I have taken the hex value passed thru a password cracker and > found a password that with the exact same hex value on a different db and it > worked. > all this is 10g and below, 11g is a different animal with case sensitive > password and the such. > > joe Joe, I think you're referring to the default behavior when a new user is created in 11g. In many cases involving "migrating" a user from an older version as with exp and imp, the password is still case insensitive. You can check dba_users.password_versions to confirm this. Yong Huang -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l