Re: 11g password complexity

  • From: Jared Still <jkstill@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lyallbarbour@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2010 14:13:36 -0700

On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 1:02 PM, <lyallbarbour@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  We had a problem with... the @ symbol, i think.  One of the punctuations
> for passwords when a user would fire off an Oracle Report.  Maybe that is
> one of the reasons...
>
>
Ditto that.  Do not use '@' in an oracle password.

We do use a number of other punctuation characters though.

#!$%^()[]{}  and even & and * work, though I tend to avoid & and *
probably would avoid '.' as well, though I've not tried it.

Jared Still
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