Deepa Kale

• Apr 11th, 2007

 

If user authentication is managed by the database, security administrators should develop a password security policy to maintain database access security. For example, database users should be required to change their passwords at regular intervals, and of course, when their passwords are revealed to others. By forcing a user to modify passwords in such situations, unauthorized database access can be reduced.

• Set the ORA_ENCRYPT_LOGIN environment variable to TRUE on the client machine.
• Set the DBLINK_ENCRYPT_LOGIN server initialization parameter to TRUE.