
With Oracle 21c, it is now possible to enforce a password policy (length, number of digits…) for all pluggable databases or for specific pluggable databases via profiles. This is done by creating a mandatory profile in the root CDB and this profile will be attached to corresponding PDBs. The mandatory profile is a generic profile that can only have a single parameter, the PASSWORD_VERIFY_FUNCTION. The password complexity verification function of the mandatory profile is checked…