Insufficient privileges when using create user in procedure Oracle - oracle

I try to create user and grant for them some privileges. I try to create without using procedure:
CREATE USER User1 IDENTIFIED BY password;
It works fine.
But for example, i have thousands of users. So I created a procedure to do it:
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE CreateUser AS
BEGIN
FOR u IN ( SELECT id FROM User )
LOOP
EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'CREATE USER User_'||d.id || ' IDENTIFIED BY password';
EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'GRANT SELECT ON UserInfo_'||d.id||' TO User_'||d.id;
END LOOP;
END
But it throws an error:
ORA-01031: insufficient privileges
How can I handle this problem? Thanks for helping in advance

You need to make sure the user running the procedure has the privileges to create users.
Assuming the user that will run the procedure is MyUser, you need to run :
GRANT CREATE USER to MyUser;

if your SQL is directly (i.e not in a procedure ) but not working from a procedure/function it means that you have the Grants through a role. For a statement to work in a procedure or a function we need direct Grants and not through the role.
You can check that you have the Create user by a role by doing the following and trying your SQL, if it fails it means you have access through a role.
SET role none;
CREATE USER User1 IDENTIFIED BY password;

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can we provide an oracle privilege to user which can alter only password of other user

I have created a procedure as shown below. This procedure is present in schema1 and trying to modify the password of another schema/user let's say schema2.
To achieve this the user schema1 must have altered user privilege but I cannot provide the alter user privilege to schema1 due to some restrictions on the application level.
I tried to query using ALTER SESSION in the procedure but it is not working.
Can someone help me with the solution?
code:
Procedure p_demo(p_schema in varchar, p_pswd in varchar2)
is
begin
execute immediate 'alter session set current_schema ='||p_schema;
execute immediate 'alter user '||p_schema||' identified by '||p_pswd;
end;
Changing the current_schema has no impact on permissions or what user is currently logged in. It merely changes how object name resolution works. If you query an object foo when current_schema is set to schema1, Oracle looks in the schema1 schema rather than in the current user's schema. It does nothing to give you access to the schema1.foo table.
I'm not quite sure that I understand the goal. If you are trying to ensure that only the schema2 user can change the schema2 user's password, you can define the procedure to use invoker's rights rather than definer's rights.
create or replace procedure change_my_password( p_username in varchar2,
p_password in varchar2 )
authid current_user
is
begin
execute immediate 'alter user '||p_username||' identified by '||p_password;
end;
/
If the goal is to have the procedure owned by schema1 and to give users other than the schema2 user permission to change schema2's password (i.e. to allow an application user or a helpdesk user to reset the user's password), schema1 would likely need to have the alter user permission. Otherwise, it's probably not doable.
If you're really desperate, you could potentially use the undocumented (and I emphasize undocumented here, subject to change at any time, may have weird side effects, may tend to make Oracle Support unhappy) dbms_sys_sql package. That's the package that APEX uses internally to run code as other users. I don't imagine that a sane DBA would consider giving an application user execute access on that package rather than the much (much, much) safer alter user permission but if you're trying to work around some corporate policy and you're not much concerned about actual security...
There are 3 users involved in this example:
scott, who is trying to change someone else's password (that's your schema1)
mike, whose password should be changed (your schema2)
mydba, who is granted DBA role in my database (if you don't have such an user, SYS would do, but - you'd rather have your own "DBA" user, don't mess up with SYS if you don't have to)
Connected as scott, I can't modify mike's password:
SQL> alter user mike identified by lion;
alter user mike identified by lion
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01031: insufficient privileges
I'm going to connect as mydba and create a stored procedure which looks like yours:
SQL> connect mydba/mypwd#c11gt
Connected.
SQL> create or replace procedure p_demo (p_schema in varchar2, p_pswd in varchar2) is
2 begin
3 execute immediate 'alter user ' || p_schema || ' identified by ' || p_pswd;
4 end;
5 /
Procedure created.
SQL> exec p_demo('mike', 'lion');
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
OK; it works. I'll grant execute privilege on it to scott:
SQL> grant execute on p_demo to scott;
Grant succeeded.
Back to scott; see what he can do now:
SQL> connect scott/tiger#c11gt
Connected.
SQL> exec mydba.p_demo('mike', 'friday');
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
Do mike's credentials work?
SQL> connect mike/friday#c11gt
Connected.
SQL>
Yes, everything's fine.
So: you don't have to grant alter user to schema1; let it use procedure owned by a privileged user who can change someone else's password.
Cant we do as shown below: Tried doing this but it didn't work.
What i am trying to do is basically give alter user privileges to one role and assign that role to my oracle procedure.
Create role role_name;
GRANT ALTER USER TO role_name
grant all on role_name to procedure

As a system user I have this error: ORA-01031: insufficient privileges

I have a stored procedure for deleting partitions. Before starting, I have to delete a constraint.
I installed the stored procedure on system user. When I test the procedure I have this error: 'ORA-01031: insufficient privileges'.
This is a piece of code that I wrote:
BEGIN
EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'ALTER TABLE USER_NAME.TABLE_NAME DISABLE CONSTRAINT CONSTRAINT_NAME';
EXCEPTION
WHEN OTHERS THEN
O_sCodError := 'NO_OK';
O_sDesError := 'Error at DISABLE CONSTRAINT_NAME: ' || SQLERRM || ';';
RETURN;
END;
Well, as I execute the stored procedure as system, I do not understand the reason for I have that error. And I think I eventually think the same error when I try to delete a partition.
Works for me on 11g XE:
SQL> show user
USER is "SCOTT"
SQL>
SQL> create table test
2 (id number constraint pk_test primary key,
3 name varchar2(20)
4 );
Table created.
SQL> connect system
Enter password:
Connected.
SQL> begin
2 execute immediate 'alter table scott.test disable constraint pk_test';
3 return;
4 end;
5 /
PL/SQL procedure successfully completed.
SQL>
Please, follow that example and execute it in your database. Post the result (by editing the question, not as a comment).
First, you should never install custom code in an Oracle default schema like SYSTEM. Put your code in a dedicated application schema. Since it contains dynamic SQL (execute immediate) you might want to consider making it an "invoker's rights" procedure, then granting execute privileges on it to the user that will execute it.
That said, in Oracle 11g whoever's privileges are used to run the PL/SQL block must have direct permissions on the underlying table, not inherited permissions through a role like DBA. If the procedure has "definer's rights" then the schema that owns the procedure must have direct privileges on the table. If "invoker's rights" then the user executing the procedure must have the privileges.
See this link for additional details:
Execute immediate within Oracle Procedure
You must grant SYSTEM account direct privilege (not with a role) to run ALTER TABLE on the target table because roles are not enabled in stored procedures by default: https://asktom.oracle.com/Misc/RolesAndProcedures.html.
Try:
grant alter any table to system;
or
grant alter table on user_name.table_name to system;

Strange ORA-942 when using DBMS_CRYPTO but table exists

This is very strange, and not easy to explain, so please bear with me.
Oracle 12.2.0.1 on Linux x86_64.
We have a user called BATCH who has minimal privileges.
CREATE USER batch IDENTIFIED BY batch
DEFAULT TABLESPACE users
QUOTA UNLIMITED ON users;
GRANT CREATE SESSION TO batch;
GRANT EXECUTE ON DBMS_CRYPTO TO batch;
The is a PLSQL package in a schema called ATLED which is :
CREATE OR REPLACE PACKAGE ALTED.the_pkh AUTHID current_user AS
PROCEDURE crttab;
END;
/
CREATE OR REPLACE PACKAGE BODY ALTED.the_pkh AS
PROCEDURE crttab IS
BEGIN
EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'CREATE TABLE atled.the_tab AS SELECT id, DBMS_CRYPTO.HASH(cc,2) AS cc FROM ARCHIVE.table_b';
END crttab;
END;
/
We are using Code Based Access Control (CBAC - 12c feature) to restrict/control/allow certain canned actions to an otherwise toothless user, so we create a wrapper procedure, grant that a high priv role, and grant execute on that to the batch user:
CREATE OR REPLACE PROCEDURE ALTED.wrapper_crttab AS
PROCEDURE p1 IS
CURSOR c1 is SELECT * FROM SESSION_PRIVS;
BEGIN
FOR r1 IN c1 LOOP
DBMS_OUTPUT.PUT_LINE( r1.privilege );
END LOOP;
END;
BEGIN
p1;
ALTED.the_pkh.crttab;
END;
/
GRANT IMP_FULL_DATABASE TO ALTED;
GRANT IMP_FULL_DATABASE ALTED.wrapper_crttab;
GRANT EXECUTE ON ALTED.wrapper_crttab TO batch;
Now let's run it:
CONN batch/batch
SET SERVEROUTPUT ON
EXEC ALTED.wrapper_crttab;
This causes the error:
Error at line 1:
ORA-00942: table or view does not exist
The tables referenced do exist.
The call to the p1 proc confirms that all the privileges bundled with IMP_FULL_DATABASE are present, including CREATE ANY TABLE, DROP ANY TABLE, EXECUTE ANY PROCEDURE.
If I do this:
GRANT CREATE ANY TABLE TO batch;
GRANT SELECT ANY TABLE TO batch;
CONN batch/batch
EXEC EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'CREATE TABLE atled.the_tab AS SELECT id, DBMS_CRYPTO.HASH(cc,2) AS cc FROM ARCHIVE.table_b;
This works.
If I change the CREATE TABLE stmt to remove the DBMS_CRYPTO call, it works as well.
The actual package/proc that is called creates a number of tables fine when run as above, but fails on the case when DBMS_CRYPTO is called in any CREATE TABLE stmt.
If I grant the batch user the CREATE ANY TABLE, SELECT ANY TABLE and EXECUTE ANY PROCEDURE privs directly and run the CREATE TABLE command as batch directly then that works too.
So this is not (I think) a straight ORA-942 error, but something related to a chain of privileges to DBMS_CRYPTO, and only when executed in a package stored procedure, but what exactly I do not know.
UPDATE 1
If I create a wrapper for DBMS_CRYPTO.HASH as follows:
CREATE OR REPLACE FUNCTION batch.crypto_hash ( pcc IN CLOB ) RETURN VARCHAR2 IS
BEGIN
RETURN DBMS_CRYPTO.HASH(pcc,2);
END;
/
Then replace the DBMS_CRYPTO.HASH(cc,2) in the CREATE TABLE stmt with batch.crypto_hash(cc) then it works!!!
So, DEFINITELY not a issue with grants on teh tables being referenced, but more likely something internal with the way DBMS_CRYPTO works. Perhaps it reads a look up table somewhere. I tried GRANT EXECUTE ON UTL_I18N to batch as well before this but that didn't work.
So I have a workaround, but woudl still like to know why this happens.
You're doing this:
... FROM ARCHIVE.table_b
User, who is supposed to select from that table, has to have SELECT privileges on it. It can be granted
via role
directly
If you granted the privilege via role, it works - but not in named PL/SQL procedures. It will work in anonymous PL/SQL, but not in procedures, function, packages, so - check that and, possibly, grant SELECT on table_b directly to that user.

How to create a role in a procedure in pl/sql?

I would like to know how I can create a role to a procedure in oracle. This procedure should (not globally) allow the user to Change the roles and delete them.
create or replace PROCEDUR MY_ROLE(Name VARCHAR2) IS
BEGIN
DBMS_Output.put_line('You've got the right ' || Name );
--EXECUTE IMMEDIATE CONCAT('grant some_role to Username' , Name);
INSERT INTO FG7.ROLE values(Name);
END MY_ROLE;
THanks!
I think the proper approach is to create a role, grant the role to user and then SET the ROLE:
EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'SET ROLE '||some_role;
Use
EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'SET ROLE NONE';
to unset the role again. Of course when you grant the role to user it must not set as DEFAULT ROLE.
The issue with GRANT some_role TO ... is, it takes effect only after the user have been logged in again.
You can also use DBMS_SESSION.SET_ROLE('some_role'); and DBMS_SESSION.IS_ROLE_ENABLED('some_role') to check whether a role is enabled. See DBMS_SESSION.SET_ROLE

ORACLE USER role to limit user to view and execute function without modifying it

I am sorry for a newbie question. I am creating a readonly user in oracle. I want to limit him just to view and execute a function or procedure. I dont want him to modify those func or proc. Please help me on how to achieve this.
Thanks a lot
-- As sysdba:
-- 1) create an user account
create user <username> identified by <password>;
-- 2) allow user to log in
grant create session to <username>;
-- 3) allow user to execute a single procedure in other schema
grant execute on <other_schema.procedure_name> to <username>;
From SYSDBA user login (from where you created the user), give the following grant :
GRANT EXECUTE ANY PROCEDURE TO user;
GRANT SELECT ANY TABLE TO user;
where user = the username you just created.
Then ,to ensure the user has only read priviledges, check from session_privs that he doesnot have any other priviledge, specifically any "CREATE" prviledge. To do this , run :
select * from session_privs;
from the user you just created.

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