Password policy and OEM

So we have a password policy that automatically locks accounts on 3 attempts.
When OEM sends a saved preferred credential to a database. it looks like it has several attempt before it prompts you via the login panel for the credentials.
By the time you reach the login panel the account is already locked because it looks like OEM has had several attempts against the database already.
So what we have is a situation where our password policy is out of sync with what OEM v 10 expects.
The only way it works is if the DBA unlocks the account prior to my hitting login from the login screen.
This is all because I've had to change my password ever 60 days and OEM has remembered my old password which now is no longer valid against the
target database.
Thoughts?

If preferred credentials are specified, OEM uses those credentials and checks if the login can be performed with those credentials. But, if the saved preferred credentials are different from what the database is configured, we will run into the max_failed_attempts usecase.
The same preferred credentials will be used by background jobs and so if the password is changed on the database without updating the preferred credentials, the account could be locked out quickly if there are any background jobs.
Also, OEM provides command line scripts (emcli update_db_password) that can be used to update the password in the database as well as update the preferred credentials with the same password, which is the recommeded way to change password when they are used in preferred credentials.

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