Changing password on Oracle 11g from 10g clients (ORA-28001 -> ORA-01017)

Bit of an odd one this. Oracle 11g database, a user’s password has expired. But when I try to change it, I can’t: [sourcecode language=“bash”] $sqlplus MYUSER/oldPW@oraDBServer

SQL*Plus: Release 10.2.0.1.0 - Production on Wed Sep 23 07:57:41 2009

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ERROR: ORA-28001: the password has expired

Changing password for MYUSER New password: Retype new password: ERROR: ORA-01017: invalid username/password; logon denied

Password unchanged [/sourcecode]

After a bit of digging around I found a post (cached) which says that this is a problem when you use 10g clients with 11g database. And sure enough:

[sourcecode language=“bash”] C:\Windows\System32>C:\instantclient_11_1\sqlplus.exe MYUSER/oldPW@oraDBServer

SQL*Plus: Release 11.1.0.7.0 - Production on Wed Sep 23 08:34:39 2009

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ERROR: ORA-28001: the password has expired

Changing password for MYUSER New password: Retype new password: Password changed

Connected to: Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.1.0.7.0 - 64bit Production With the Partitioning, OLAP, Data Mining and Real Application Testing options

SQL> [/sourcecode]