ORA-28001: the password has expired (DBD ERROR: OCISessionBegin)

[ravindra patil]

I Have oracle 11 g ,

i used to get password expire alert some days back but i ignored it so now i want to connect my DB, but i am getting
ORA-28001: the password has expired (DBD ERROR: OCISessionBegin) when i try to access DB ,
is there any solution or i need to reinstall my database,

even when i try to create new database i get error like no sufficient privileges
please help

[Jan Cumps]

Can you login to the database with that user with SQL*Plus?
If you are still in the grace period, you will should prompted to provide a new password.

For OCI, hae a look at this: OCIPasswordChange()
http://download.oracle.com/docs/cd/B10501_01/appdev.920/a96584/oci16100.htm

This call is useful when the password of an account has expired and OCISessionBegin() returns an error (ORA-28001) or warning that indicates that the password has expired

[ravindra patil]

Well i could able to login using sql+
finally i call DB expert .. he tried whole day now we reinstall it ... so my whole day wasted in this ..