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Oracle Database 12c Security Cookbook

By : Zoran Pavlovic, Maja Veselica
Book Image

Oracle Database 12c Security Cookbook

By: Zoran Pavlovic, Maja Veselica

Overview of this book

Businesses around the world are paying much greater attention toward database security than they ever have before. Not only does the current regulatory environment require tight security, particularly when dealing with sensitive and personal data, data is also arguably a company’s most valuable asset - why wouldn’t you want to protect it in a secure and reliable database? Oracle Database lets you do exactly that. It’s why it is one of the world’s leading databases – with a rich portfolio of features to protect data from contemporary vulnerabilities, it’s the go-to database for many organizations. Oracle Database 12c Security Cookbook helps DBAs, developers, and architects to better understand database security challenges. Let it guide you through the process of implementing appropriate security mechanisms, helping you to ensure you are taking proactive steps to keep your data safe. Featuring solutions for common security problems in the new Oracle Database 12c, with this book you can be confident about securing your database from a range of different threats and problems.
Table of Contents (18 chapters)
Oracle Database 12c Security Cookbook
Credits
About the Authors
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface

Granting privileges and roles locally


A local privilege is a privilege than can be exercised only in a container in which it is granted. Depending only on the way it is granted, a privilege becomes common or local. When you grant privilege locally (in the current container), it becomes a local privilege. Both common and local users or roles can have local privileges.

Getting ready

For this recipe, you'll need an existing user (c##maja) who can grant some privileges (for example, create procedure, create table, create view, and create synonym) and roles (c##role1, c##role2, c##role3, c##role4, and local_role1) in a specific container (root or PDB; in our case, pdb1) to existing users and roles (c##john, mike, local_role1, c##role1, c##role3, and c##role4).

How to do it...

  1. You should connect to the container (root or pluggable database) in which you want to grant the privilege as a common or local user who can grant that privilege (for example, c##maja):

    SQL> connect c##maja@pdb1
    
  2. Grant a privilege...