Validate Password

Question

This may sound trivial but here is what I want to do:
1. when I create a user in htmldb, I assign a password = first name,
2. I have a page where user can change his password using
htmldb_util.change_current_user_pw procedure.
Now, I would like to force the user to change the password after first login.
How do I validate the password? Is creating a conditional branching the right
way to forward the user to the password change page if it eqals first name?
Thanks in advance,
Denes Kubicek

Answer 1

Sorry for the misleading terminology from my side. It was late in the evening yesterday.
I followed your proposal on creating a page process instead of
branching and making it conditional. Here is what I came up with:
1. created an item that will hold the conditional value for the application process
2. created a process
BEGIN
IF htmldb_util.is_login_password_valid
(:app_user,
LOWER (htmldb_util.get_first_name (:app_user)
THEN
:p1_password_check := 2;
owa_util.redirect_url('f?p=&APP_ID.:102:&SESSION.:::::');
ELSE
:p1_password_check := 1;
END IF;
END;
3. Created a condition to fire the process only:
IF :p1_password_check IS NULL
AND NVL (v ('APP_USER'), 'nobody') NOT IN
('HTMLDB_PUBLIC_USER', 'nobody')
THEN
RETURN TRUE;
ELSE
RETURN FALSE;
END IF;
This solution works as expected. Thanks again for your hints.
Denes Kubicek