Reset Password without Admin Privileges

Question

I am using the latest APEX hosted via apex.oracle.com. I'm trying to create a 'forgot password' capability but it appears that every built-in apex utility that allows me to reset and/or update the password requires admin privileges. Is there any way to do this without having admin privileges? I'm using APEX Authentication.
Thanks,
Mark

Answer 1

Hi Mark,
Create an authentication function with two parameters something like this and follow the link to create a custom authentication scheme.
http://docs.oracle.com/cd/E23903_01/doc/doc.41/e21674/sec_authentication.htm#HTMDB25778
function my_authentication (
    p_username in varchar2,
    p_password in varchar2 )
    return boolean
is
    l_user my_users.user_name%type := upper(p_username);
    l_pwd  my_users.password%type;
    l_id   my_users.id%type;
begin
    select id  , password
      into l_id, l_pwd
      from my_users
     where user_name = l_user;
    return l_pwd = rawtohex(sys.dbms_crypto.hash (
                       sys.utl_raw.cast_to_raw(p_password||l_id||l_user),
                       sys.dbms_crypto.hash_md5 ));
exception
    when NO_DATA_FOUND then return false;
end;
and
my_authentication