User not getting Expired.

Question

Hi All.
I am new to oracle and facing some issues, which needs to be solved soon. Please guide.
I have created a profile on my DB -
CREATE PROFILE Test_Profile_1 LIMIT
PASSWORD_LIFE_TIME 3
PASSWORD_GRACE_TIME 2;
And i am setting this profile to some of the users.
The users were created very long back in 2008 -09.
I want their password to be expired in 3 days and then get them into grace period so that they can change their password. (However i can expire their password at one go - but this is not the requirement).
I executed the below query after creating the profile -
ALTER USER ABAKLAN PROFILE TESTPROFILE_1;
ALTER USER AGARGSA PROFILE TESTPROFILE_1;
ALTER USER AJAHARA PROFILE TESTPROFILE_1;
To verify that my profile has set correctly i used :
select username, account_status , profile, expiry_date from dba_users;
Now what is happening the expiry date has not been set for the above users .
USERNAME ACCOUNT_STATUS PROFILE EXPIRY_DATE
ABAKLAN OPEN TESTPROFILE_1 25-JUL-08
AGARGSA OPEN TESTPROFILE_1 14-FEB-09
AJAHARA OPEN TESTPROFILE_1 16-OCT-09
I want them expired 3 days after i set the profile.
Please tell me where i am wrong in creating the profile. I want old users to get expire after 3 days. In this case expiry date is not changing.

Answer 1

I don't use Toad , but I would think it world work the same way. Sqlplus works as expected:
SQL> select limit, resource_name, p.profile, expiry_date
  2  from dba_users u, dba_profiles p
  3  where u.username = 'TEST' and p.profile = u.profile
  4  and resource_name in ('PASSWORD_LIFE_TIME','PASSWORD_GRACE_TIME');
LIMIT                                    RESOURCE_NAME
PROFILE                        EXPIRY_DA
1                                        PASSWORD_LIFE_TIME
TEST_PROFILE_1                 25-DEC-11 <-- this account's password was set a couple days ago
2                                        PASSWORD_GRACE_TIME
TEST_PROFILE_1                 25-DEC-11
SQL> conn test/test
ERROR:
ORA-28002: the password will expire within 2 daysIs it possible that the account has already passed the grace period?
Note what happens to the expiration date for TEST when I reset the password.
SQL> password
Changing password for TEST
Old password:
New password:
Retype new password:
Password changed
SQL> conn test/test
Connected.
SQL>
SQL>
SQL> conn / as sysdba
Connected.
SQL> select limit, resource_name, p.profile, expiry_date
from dba_users u, dba_profiles p
where u.username = 'TEST' and p.profile = u.profile
and resource_name in ('PASSWORD_LIFE_TIME','PASSWORD_GRACE_TIME');
  2    3    4 
LIMIT                                    RESOURCE_NAME
PROFILE                        EXPIRY_DA
1                                        PASSWORD_LIFE_TIME
TEST_PROFILE_1                 24-DEC-11
2                                        PASSWORD_GRACE_TIME
TEST_PROFILE_1                 24-DEC-11