{"id":1339,"date":"2025-01-07T11:19:38","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T11:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/w3buddy.com\/?p=1339"},"modified":"2026-01-15T13:17:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T07:47:27","slug":"how-to-backup-user-passwords-in-oracle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/w3buddy.com\/blog\/how-to-backup-user-passwords-in-oracle\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Backup User Passwords in Oracle"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Backing up user passwords in Oracle is essential for database administrators. This guide shows how to back up passwords for a single user, multiple users, or all users in the database using SQL queries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Backup Password for a Single User<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-prismatic-blocks\"><code class=\"language-sql\">col name for a15\ncol password for a20\ncol spare4 for a999\nset lines 1000 pages 1000\nselect name, password, spare4 \nfrom user$ \nwhere name = '&amp;name';<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Backup Passwords for Multiple Users<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-prismatic-blocks\"><code class=\"language-sql\">col name for a15\ncol password for a20\ncol spare4 for a999\nset lines 1000 pages 1000\nselect name, password, spare4 \nfrom user$ \nwhere name in ('HR', 'SYS');<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Backup Passwords for All Database Users<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-prismatic-blocks\"><code class=\"language-sql\">spool all_db_users_password.sql\ncol command for a2000\nset lines 1000 pages 2000\nselect 'alter user ' || name || ' identified by values ''' || password || ''';' as command\nfrom user$ \nwhere name in (select username from dba_users) \nand spare4 is null and password is not null\nunion all\nselect 'alter user ' || name || ' identified by values ''' || spare4 || password || ''';' as command\nfrom user$ \nwhere name in (select username from dba_users) \nand spare4 is not null and password is not null\nunion all\nselect 'alter user ' || name || ' identified by values ''' || spare4 || ''';' as command\nfrom user$ \nwhere name in (select username from dba_users) \nand spare4 is not null and password is null;\nspool off;<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Also Read<\/strong>:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/w3buddy.com\/blog\/oracle-user-management-a-complete-guide\/\">Oracle User Management: A Complete Guide<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/w3buddy.com\/blog\/oracle-sql-scripts-to-check-user-password-change-account-creation-last-login-expiry-date-and-password-history\/\">Oracle SQL Scripts to Check User Password Change, Account Creation, Last Login, Expiry Date, and Password History<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Backing up user passwords in Oracle is essential for database administrators. This guide shows how to back up passwords for a single user, multiple users, or all users in the database using SQL queries. Backup Password for a Single User Backup Passwords for Multiple Users Backup Passwords for All Database Users Also Read:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"googlesitekit_rrm_CAowu461DA:productID":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1225],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-database"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/w3buddy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/w3buddy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/w3buddy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w3buddy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w3buddy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/w3buddy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1341,"href":"https:\/\/w3buddy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1339\/revisions\/1341"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/w3buddy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w3buddy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/w3buddy.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}