Unlocking Users

There are several ways to unlock users.

  1. Assume that a user is locked because he or she belongs to a login policy with locked=ON. To unlock such a user, assign him or her to a login policy where option locked=OFF.
  2. A user can also be locked if he/she has exceeded the max_failed_login_attempts or max_days_since_login. To unlock such a user, use a statement like the following:
    ALTER USER john RESET LOGIN POLICY

    The preceding statement is semantically equivalent to ALTER USER userid LOGIN POLICY current-policy-for-user.