Changing password within SQL Developer

Hi, Thanks for the great product. I'm beginning to migrate from TOAD to SQL Developer and have run into one minor snafu. The one minor feature missing within SQL Developer (unless I missed it) is to easily change a password like TOAD in the UI (This is a common complaint among other devlopers trying it out). I work on a lot of seperate databases occasionally and have to reset the passwords every 60 days.
I would like to request this minor feature.
How can I change my password without using SQL Plus, but within SQL Developer? Is there a way?
Thank you!

Sounds like a good enhancement and I will record it. In the meanwhile, just open a SQL Worksheet and issue your command.
-- Sharon

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Password change fails in SQL Developer with verify function...

A couple of months ago I enforced a password verify function on our 11.2.0.3 databases and also one legacy 10.2.0.4 database.
At the time I tested on my account (which had elevated privileges...doh!).   Now some users are hitting expiry, they can't change it via SQL Developer.
If I create a user with 'create session' privilege and set their profile to one that uses the verify function (see both below), I then log in to SQL Developer (we have tried with versions 3.1 (Windows) and 3.2 (Linux) with same failure results.
BTW,.. the password verify function enforces the following:
password must be minimum of 8 characters
password must not be the same as the user name, or user name (1-100)
password must contain at least a single digit
password must contain at least a single character
1. Works = I log into the local server and run command line SQLPlus, type 'password' and update.   I can successfully change my password.
2. Fails = I log into the local server and run command line SQLPlus, type 'alter user <me> identified by <newpwd>;' I get:
TEST: SUTEMP > alter user sutemp identified by carport9999;
alter user sutemp identified by carport9999
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-28221: REPLACE not specified
This error is because the account does not have the 'alter user' privilege.   I'm okay with this, as I don't want our users having this privilege.
3. I start SQL Developer 3.2, type 'alter user <me> identified by <newpwd>;' I get the same ORA-28221 error as above.   That is fine, and as expected.
4. Now in SQL Developer, I type 'password', set a valid password, but I get 'Failed to change password' in the Script Output tab.
I have a database 'after servererror on database' trigger set, and querying the database table it is logging into, I see a record with a date stamp matching my failure with a server_error=28221 (the same as above).
So I'm wondering if I'm doing something wrong here, or if this is a bug in SQL Developer.   I don't want standard users having 'alter user' privileges, but I do want to enforce password verification.
I get the same result on three 11.2.0.3 databases (haven't tried any more but suspect same results for others) and one legacy 10.2.0.4 database, and using SQL Developer 3.1 and 3.2.
DBA_PROFILE used:
PROFILE
RESOURCE_NAME
RESOURCE LIMIT
CTRU
COMPOSITE_LIMIT
KERNEL     DEFAULT
CTRU
SESSIONS_PER_USER
KERNEL     10
CTRU
CPU_PER_SESSION
KERNEL     DEFAULT
CTRU
CPU_PER_CALL
KERNEL     DEFAULT
CTRU
LOGICAL_READS_PER_SESSION    KERNEL     DEFAULT
CTRU
LOGICAL_READS_PER_CALL
KERNEL     DEFAULT
CTRU
IDLE_TIME
KERNEL     DEFAULT
CTRU
CONNECT_TIME
KERNEL     DEFAULT
CTRU
PRIVATE_SGA
KERNEL     DEFAULT
CTRU
FAILED_LOGIN_ATTEMPTS
PASSWORD 10
CTRU
PASSWORD_LIFE_TIME
PASSWORD 180
CTRU
PASSWORD_REUSE_TIME
PASSWORD DEFAULT
CTRU
PASSWORD_REUSE_MAX
PASSWORD 5
CTRU
PASSWORD_VERIFY_FUNCTION     PASSWORD VERIFY_FUNCTION_11G
CTRU
PASSWORD_LOCK_TIME
PASSWORD .002
CTRU
PASSWORD_GRACE_TIME
PASSWORD 21
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$ cat utlpwdmg.sql
Rem
Rem $Header: utlpwdmg.sql 02-aug-2006.08:18:05 asurpur Exp $
Rem
Rem utlpwdmg.sql
Rem
Rem Copyright (c) 2006, Oracle. All rights reserved.
Rem
Rem    NAME
Rem      utlpwdmg.sql - script for Default Password Resource Limits
Rem
Rem    DESCRIPTION
Rem      This is a script for enabling the password management features
Rem      by setting the default password resource limits.
Rem
Rem    NOTES
Rem      This file contains a function for minimum checking of password
Rem      complexity. This is more of a sample function that the customer
Rem      can use to develop the function for actual complexity checks that the
Rem      customer wants to make on the new password.
Rem
Rem    MODIFIED   (MM/DD/YY)
Rem    suren       05/09/13 - customise for NIHI use
Rem    asurpur     05/30/06 - fix - 5246666 beef up password complexity check
Rem    nireland    08/31/00 - Improve check for username=password. #1390553
Rem    nireland    06/28/00 - Fix null old password test. #1341892
Rem    asurpur     04/17/97 - Fix for bug479763
Rem    asurpur     12/12/96 - Changing the name of password_verify_function
Rem    asurpur     05/30/96 - New script for default password management
Rem    asurpur     05/30/96 - Created
Rem
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-- This script needs to be run to enable the password features.
-- However the default resource parameters can be changed based
-- on the need.
-- A default password complexity function is also provided.
-- This function makes the minimum complexity checks like
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-- username, etc. The user may enhance this function according to
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(username varchar2,
password varchar2,
old_password varchar2)
RETURN boolean IS
   n boolean;
   m integer;
   differ integer;
   isdigit boolean;
   ischar boolean;
   ispunct boolean;
   db_name varchar2(40);
   digitarray varchar2(20);
   punctarray varchar2(25);
   chararray varchar2(52);
   i_char varchar2(10);
   simple_password varchar2(10);
   reverse_user varchar2(32);
BEGIN
   digitarray:= '0123456789';
   chararray:= 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ';
   -- Check for the minimum length of the password
   IF length(password) < 8 THEN
      raise_application_error(-20001, 'Password length less than 8');
   END IF;
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   IF NLS_LOWER(password) = NLS_LOWER(username) THEN
     raise_application_error(-20002, 'Password same as or similar to user');
   END IF;
   FOR i IN 1..100 LOOP
      i_char := to_char(i);
      if NLS_LOWER(username)|| i_char = NLS_LOWER(password) THEN
        raise_application_error(-20005, 'Password same as or similar to user name ');
      END IF;
    END LOOP;
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   -- 1. Check for the digit
   isdigit:=FALSE;
   m := length(password);
   FOR i IN 1..10 LOOP
      FOR j IN 1..m LOOP
         IF substr(password,j,1) = substr(digitarray,i,1) THEN
            isdigit:=TRUE;
             GOTO findchar;
         END IF;
      END LOOP;
   END LOOP;
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      raise_application_error(-20008, 'Password must contain at least one digit, one character');
   END IF;
   -- 2. Check for the character
   <<findchar>>
   ischar:=FALSE;
   FOR i IN 1..length(chararray) LOOP
      FOR j IN 1..m LOOP
         IF substr(password,j,1) = substr(chararray,i,1) THEN
            ischar:=TRUE;
             GOTO endsearch;
         END IF;
      END LOOP;
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      raise_application_error(-20009, 'Password must contain at least one digit, and one character');
   END IF;
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   -- 3 letters
   IF old_password IS NOT NULL THEN
     differ := length(old_password) - length(password);
     differ := abs(differ);
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         m := length(password);
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       END IF;
       FOR i IN 1..m LOOP
         IF substr(password,i,1) != substr(old_password,i,1) THEN
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okay,... I just saw another website which shows I should put in the 'replace <oldpwd>' clause in.
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So why does the 'password' command fail?     (Developers: it would also be helpful to have the ORA- error displayed as opposed to 'Failed to change password')

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I'm pretty new to the Oracle DBA space but not to SQL Server Ah. The first thing you need to do is check everything you think you know about rdbms at the door. The similarity between SQL Server and Oracle ends right after SELECT * FROM EMP.
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