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"Create User" gives ORA-01031: insufficient privileges for user sys

AmbarishMitraJan 22 2010 — edited Sep 7 2010
I am on Oracle 11g db, 11.1.0.6 and login successfully using sys/password as sysdba. This login is successful.

[oracle@RH5-32-OR bin]$ ./sqlplus sys/abcd1234 as sysdba

SQL*Plus: Release 11.1.0.6.0 - Production on Thu Jan 21 06:06:51 2010

Connected to:
Oracle Database 11g Enterprise Edition Release 11.1.0.6.0 - Production
With the Partitioning, Oracle Label Security, OLAP, Data Mining,
Oracle Database Vault and Real Application Testing options



However, I cannot create a new user, getting error about insufficient privileges. I though since this is a sys login with role DBA, it should be allowed to create user.

I also logged in to enterprise manager console using the same credentials, and navigated to: Security->Sys.
- Under the system tab, and can see "Create User" granted.
- Under the role tab, there is DBA granted.


SQL> create user myuser identified globally;
create user myuser identified globally
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01031: insufficient privileges



Where to check for previleges? And how to debug. I am really very surprised.

Thanks.
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