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QUESTION POSED ON: 09 August 2007
How can I find out what date the SYS/SYSTEM passwords have been last changed on? Is it the CTIME in SYS.USER$?


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The CTIME column of SYS.USER$ is the date and time the user was created. So this value does not help you.

I know of no way to determine the actual date and time the password was last changed. However, you can set up a profile for your users to expire passwords after a certain number of days. The EXPIRY_DATE column of DBA_USERS will show you when the password will expire next. To determine when the user changed their password last, simply subtract the password lifetime value from the expiration date.




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