Re: error in granting role

Hi Simon,

Niall's response is correct...you must grant the role to the user before it can be made a default..

Hope this helps,

Steve

"Simon Cunningham" <cs40_at_gre.ac.uk> wrote in message news:3B962C26.67F7F5D4_at_gre.ac.uk...
> Hello everyone
>
> got a small problem with granting a role and cant see the problem
>
> created a role called msc amongst others and tried to grant it to a user
> but sql keeps saying it does not exist. Checked dba_roles and its there
> but when I tried to grant the role it says it does not exist. sql
> output below.
> BTW oracle 8.1.7
>
> not a serious issue but just would like to know why it does not want to
> grant this role????
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> SQL> select role from dba_roles;
>
> blah blah
>
> ROLE
> ------------------------------
> COMP3
> INFO3
> MSC
> COMP2
> INFO2
>
> 27 rows selected.
>
> SQL>
> SQL> alter user el008 default role msc;
> alter user el008 default role msc
> *
> ERROR at line 1:
> ORA-01919: role 'MSC' does not exist
>
>
> SQL> alter user el008 default role comp3;
>
> User altered.
>
> SQL> alter user el008 default role msc;
> alter user el008 default role msc
> *
> ERROR at line 1:
> ORA-01919: role 'MSC' does not exist
>
>
> SQL> ed
> Wrote file afiedt.buf
>
> 1* alter user el008 default role MSC
> SQL> /
> alter user el008 default role MSC
> *
> ERROR at line 1:
> ORA-01919: role 'MSC' does not exist
>
>
> SQL> select * from dba_roles where role ='MSC';
>
> ROLE PASSWORD
> ------------------------------ --------
> MSC NO
>
> SQL> ed
> Wrote file afiedt.buf
>
> 1* select * from dba_roles where role ='COMP3'
> SQL> /
>
> ROLE PASSWORD
> ------------------------------ --------
> COMP3 NO
>
Received on Wed Sep 05 2001 - 11:18:04 CDT