Or if you don't want to mess with undocumented tables, you can also use set long 10000 select dbms_metadata.get_ddl('USER',username) from dba_users; to get the information. Stefan ========================= Stefan P Knecht CEO & Founder s@xxxxxxxx 10046 Consulting GmbH Schwarzackerstrasse 29 CH-8304 Wallisellen Switzerland Phone +41-(0)8400-10046 Cell +41 (0) 79 571 36 27 info@xxxxxxxx http://www.10046.ch ========================= On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 8:58 PM, Joan Hsieh <joan.hsieh@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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 > > >