Problem anamnesis:
In order to automate index recreation for a PVJOURNAL table in oracle I wrote a procedure in a package.
The table PVJOURNAL locates in PROVIEW schema. My SPACEMAN user has enough grants in that schema. Here below is a DDL of the package:
CREATE OR REPLACE
PACKAGE spaceman.tmp_itcm4052 is
-- This proc rebuilds ALL indexes of a specific.
PROCEDURE idx_rebuild;
END;
/
CREATE OR REPLACE
PACKAGE BODY spaceman.tmp_itcm4052 is
-- ===========================================================================
PROCEDURE idx_rebuild as
-- This proc rebuilds ALL indexes of a specific table. Run by Job
v_sql_str VARCHAR2(200);
begin
FOR rec in (
select owner ||'.'|| index_name as IDX_NAME,
tablespace_name as TblSpace
from sys.all_indexes
where upper(index_type) = 'NORMAL'
and upper(table_owner) = 'PROVIEW'
and upper(table_name) in ('PVJOURNAL')
)
LOOP
v_sql_str := 'ALTER INDEX '||rec.IDX_NAME||' rebuild tablespace '
||rec.TblSpace||' online';
-- ALTER INDEX ... SHRINK SPACE COMPACT
-- ALTER INDEX ... DEALLOCATE UNUSED SHRINK SPACE COMPACT
dbms_output.put_line('v_sql_str = '||v_sql_str);
execute immediate v_sql_str;
commit;
END LOOP;
end idx_rebuild;
END tmp_ITCM4052;
/
Problem itself:
The problem is that a call of the procedure under my SPACEMAN user
begin
spaceman.tmp_itcm4052.idx_rebuild;
end;
ends up with error
ORA-01031: insufficient privileges - full view of the error
But the direct run of the line, produced by the procedure, saved into v_sql_str variable and visualized by this piece of the procedure:
dbms_output.put_line('v_sql_str = '||v_sql_str);, done under the same SPACEMAN user works like a magic. proof that direct alter does work
Questions:
What wrong have I done to the gods of pl/sql? Why the call to the procedure fails whilst the same command, execurted directly - is not?
UPD: Not only GRANT INDEX ON PROVIEW.PVJOURNAL TO SPACEMAN; didn't help. Moreover, for whatewer reason not yet kown to me, GRANT ALTER ANY INDEX to SPACEMAN; didn't help either.
Had doublechecked it with
SELECT PRIVILEGE
FROM sys.dba_sys_privs
WHERE upper(grantee) = 'SPACEMAN'
UNION
SELECT PRIVILEGE
FROM dba_role_privs rp JOIN role_sys_privs rsp ON (rp.granted_role = rsp.role)
WHERE upper(rp.grantee) = 'SPACEMAN'
ORDER BY 1;
the privilege ALTER ANY INDEX (as well as ALTER ANY INDEXTYPE ) is in the list.
UPD 1: as it turned out - the ALTER ANY INDEX privilege is not sufficient in this case. What did helped me is that link, kindly provided by #Wernfried Domscheit. REspect, man!
The procedure created as
CREATE OR REPLACE
PACKAGE spaceman.tmp_itcm4052 authid CURRENT_USER is
works like a spell.
Inside a PL/SQL block you have only privileges which are granted to the user directly. Privileges which are granted by ROLE (e.g. DBA) do not apply inside a PL/SQL block (except role PUBLIC).
Grant CREATE ANY INDEX directly to the user, then it should work.
The behavior described above is the default, it is called "definer's rights unit". You can change it by adding AUTHID CURRENT_USER to your procedure/package. For more information see Invoker's Rights and Definer's Rights (AUTHID Property)
N.b. COMMIT is not required after a DDL statement. Oracle performs an implicit commit.
Different grants are used when you invoke direct SQL and when it is used in the procedure.
Privileges granted through a role (such as DBA) are not available to
definer's rights stored procedures which is the default.
Only privileges that are granted directly to the user are available in a
definer's rights stored procedure.
You must grant the ALTER ANY INDEX privileges directly to your user.
Cheers!!
Related
I am having a stored procedure in user META. This SP truncates a table in user STAGE.
CREATE PROCEDURE META.sp_truncate_tablex
AUTHID CURRENT_USER
as
BEGIN
EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'TRUNCATE TABLE STAGE.Tablex';
END;
When I run the SP I get RA-06598: insufficient INHERIT PRIVILEGES.
I have tried to make both users to DBA.
This means if I run SELECT grantee
WHERE granted_role = 'DBA'
ORDER BY grantee;
it shows me that META dn STAGE are DBA.
I have also tried: GRANT INHERIT PRIVILEGES ON USER STAGE TO META; But I still get the same error in Oracle 18.
Your problem is this clause:
AUTHID CURRENT_USER
This means the user who executes the procedure does so with their own privileges. So a user who is not META cannot run the procedure unless they have the DROP ANY TABLE privilege, in which case they don't need to run the procedure as they can truncate the table anyway.
The solution is to declare the procedure with
AUTHID DEFINER
Now the procedure executes with the privileges of its owner - META - who presumably owns the target table. Except they don't. The table is actually owned by STAGE. So STAGE needs to own the procedure as well.
As it happens, DEFINER rights are the default so we don't need to explicitly define them, except for clarity.
CREATE PROCEDURE STAGE.sp_truncate_tablex
AS
BEGIN
EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'TRUNCATE TABLE STAGE.Tablex';
END;
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;
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.
I want to perform some dynamic DDL in a procedure owned by an admin user. I'd like to execute this procedure with a technical operational user with definer rights (operational user doesn't have the create table role).
The problem is the 'create table' permission is granted to the admin user through use of a role, which doesn't allow me to execute the DDL as it seems that roles don't count in named pl/sql blocks.
create or replace
PROCEDURE test_permissions AUTHID DEFINER AS
v_query_string VARCHAR2(400 CHAR) := 'CREATE TABLE TEST(abcd VARCHAR2(200 CHAR))';
BEGIN
EXECUTE IMMEDIATE v_query_string;
END;
What I tried:
Running the procedure from a function set to AUTHID DEFINER with AUTHID CURRENT_USER on the proc (hoping the function would cascade the definer somehow)
Putting an anonymous block inside the function to execute the DDL (as roles seem to count in anonymous block)
If I set the AUTHID to CURRENT_USER, I can execute the procedure correctly with the admin user.
Is there any way I can work around this without granting CREATE TABLE directly to the admin user?
You can only set a role within a PL/SQL stored procedure/function if it has Invoker's Rights (AUTHID CURRENT_USER)(see doc). Which means that you can't use ops_user to call admin_user's procedure and then access admin_user's roles. If your DBAs insist on using a role to control the CREATE TABLE privilege, here's the approach I've seen before:
create or replace package admin_user.role_test authid current_user is
procedure test_permissions;
end role_test;
/
create or replace package body admin_user.role_test is
procedure test_permissions is
v_query_string VARCHAR2(400 CHAR) := 'begin
dbms_output.put_line(''after'');
for r in (select role from session_roles) loop
dbms_output.put_line(r.role);
end loop;
end;';
begin
dbms_output.put_line('before');
for r in (select role from session_roles) loop
dbms_output.put_line(r.role);
end loop;
DBMS_SESSION.SET_ROLE('CREATE_TABLE_ROLE IDENTIFIED BY "SECRET_PASSWORD"');
execute immediate v_query_string;
DBMS_SESSION.SET_ROLE('ALL EXCEPT CREATE_TABLE_ROLE'); -- restore defaults
end;
end role_test;
/
grant execute on admin_user.role_test to ops_user;
This will temporarily grant the role to ops_user just to execute your code. By default the ops_user should not be able to view the admin_user's package body source. You could probably wrap the package body to further protect the password. But password security aside, my biggest concern with this approach is that Oracle doesn't provide a nice way to disable a single role, so if ops_user has other password-protected roles, this code might raise an ORA-01979 when it tries to restore them.
So, there's an answer, but I'd still recommend doing what the other commenters suggested and granting CREATE TABLE to your admin user.
I need to do truncate table and then insert data in that table using procedure.
However, one does like dinamic sql but the other one doesn't:
create or replace
procedure RECREATE_AGGREGATE
AUTHID DEFINER
AS
BEGIN
TRUNCATE TABLE AGGREGATE;
INSERT INTO AGGREGATE SELECT * FROM OLD_AGGREGATE;
END;
Error(6,14): PLS-00103: Encountered the symbol "TABLE" when expecting one of the following: := . ( # % ; The symbol ":= was inserted before "TABLE" to continue.
If I add execute immediate around TRUNCATE statement, it works fine, but insert is erroring out.
If I remove it, TRUNCATE TABLE complains...
create or replace
procedure RECREATE_AGGREGATE
AUTHID DEFINER
AS
BEGIN
execute immediate 'TRUNCATE TABLE AGGREGATE';
INSERT INTO AGGREGATE SELECT * FROM OLD_AGGREGATE;
END;
Error(7,5): PL/SQL: SQL Statement ignored
Error(7,84): PL/SQL: ORA-00942: table or view does not exist
Can some shed some light here?
create or replace
procedure RECREATE_AGGREGATE
AUTHID DEFINER
AS
BEGIN
EXECUTE IMMEDIATE 'TRUNCATE TABLE AGGREGATE';
INSERT INTO AGGREGATE SELECT * FROM OLD_AGGREGATE;
END;
will work assuming that you have appropriate privileges.
Based on your edit (and echoing #OracleUser's comment), you're likely getting an error running your INSERT statement because old_aggregate is owned by another user and you only have SELECT privileges on that table via a role. If you want to do something in a definer's rights stored procedure, you'll need to have those privileges granted directly to you (or be using 12c which lets you grant privileges to blocks of code rather than to users).
Assuming you want to use a definer's rights stored procedure, you'd need the owner of old_aggregate (or the DBA) to
GRANT SELECT
ON old_user.old_aggregate
TO new_user;
You can verify that you only have the privilege via a role by disabling roles for the session. I'll wager that if you do
SQL> set role none;
SQL> SELECT * FROM old_aggregate
that you'll get an ORA-00942 error as well. This is a good way of simulating what privileges will be available to the user inside a definer's rights stored procedure.
"TRUNCATE is DDL (data definition language). You cannot perform DDL from within PL/SQL. "
http://www.orafaq.com/forum/t/119427