Re: Privileges Issue

"Jimbo1" <jamestheboarder_at_googlemail.com> wrote in message news:1152890107.254065.84660_at_p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com...
> Hello there,
>
> I'm currently experiencing some fun and games with System Privileges in
> Oracle 8.1.7 (An upgrade to 10gR2 is taking place in January 2007, but
> that's not relevant to this question. It's just a pre-emptive answer to
> any 'helpful' individuals who advise an upgrade).
>
> In a nutshell, I'm trying to grant the SELECT privilege on a table in
> another schema to a another seperate schema. Sounds simple eh? The
> schema I'm connecting to in order to do this has been granted the DBA
> role, so this should not be a problem.
>
> Anyway, let's say my schema with the DBA role is called Schema 1.
>
> I'm connecting to Schema 1 and running the following statement:
>
> GRANT SELECT ON Schema2.tableA TO Schema3;
>
> I'm getting the following exception:
>
> ERROR at line 1:
> ORA-01031: insufficient privileges
>
> The DBA role has the GRANT ANY PRIVILEGE privilege.
>
> I am totally confused. Does anybody know what I'm missing here?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> James
>

I'm not sure but I don't think you can do with 8i, even when you have the DBA role. You have to log in with user2 and GRANT SELECT on any object to user3.

connect user2/pwd;
grant select on tableA to user3;

Matthias Received on Fri Jul 14 2006 - 10:32:31 CDT