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ORA-01017: invalid username/password; logon denied

ORA-01017: invalid username/password; logon denied is raised for all authentication failures when trying to connect to the database (in contrast to ORA-01031: insufficient privileges which is thrown if a user is already connected and then is lacking a required privilege for an attempted operation).

Changing a user's password

In case a user has forgotten the password, another privileged user can assign a new password with
alter user peter_mayer identified by theNewPassword;

See also

ORA-12638: Credential retrieval failed
ORA-01045: user ... lacks CREATE SESSION privilege; logon denied
ORA-28000: The account is locked.
Other Oracle error messages

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