RE: Error while executing stored procedure as system user

From: Christopher Spence <cspence_at_FuelSpot.com>
Date: Wed, 30 May 2001 06:11:23 -0700
Message-ID: <F001.0031349A.20010530045530@fatcity.com>

When you use privileges in stored procedures, you need to have the privilege explicitly. In other words, you cannot get the privilege from a role.

If you do a grant create user to MyRole. Grant myRole to myUser.

Then try to create user as myUser it will work, but if you try to create user from a procedure as myUser it will fail.

"Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen."

Christopher R. Spence
Oracle DBA
Fuelspot

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Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 6:50 AM
To: Multiple recipients of list ORACLE-L

Dear DBA Gurus,

I am able to execute the below code as an anonymous Pl/Sql block but when I incorporate it in a stored procedure the procedure gets created but I am getting the below errors while executing the procedure as system user:

Anonymous Pl/Sql block

Declare
name varchar2(4):='test';
BEGIN
EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'create user ' ||name||' '||'identified by '||name||' '||

'default tablespace users temporary tablespace temp';

   EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'grant connect, resource to ' ||name;
   EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'create table '||name||'.aaa(a number)';
   EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'create table '||name||'.bbb(b number)';

END; Stored Procedure

create or replace procedure create_user (name IN VARCHAR2) IS
BEGIN
EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'create user ' ||name||' '||'identified by '||name||' '||

'default tablespace users temporary tablespace temp';

   EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'grant connect, resource to ' ||name;
   EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'create table '||name||'.aaa(a number)';
   EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'create table '||name||'.bbb(b number)';

END;
/

Procedure Created.

Errors while executing the procedure

exec create_user('test');

ERROR at line 1:

ORA-01031: insufficient privileges
ORA-06512: at "SYSTEM.CREATE_USER", line 4
ORA-06512: at line 1

What might be the reason for the errors? Can anyone help me?

TIA and Regards,

Ranganath

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