12.2 New Common User Can't Change It's Password If There Is A Read only PDB (Doc ID 2498606.1)

Last updated on APRIL 17, 2023

Applies to:

Symptoms

On : 12.2.0.1 and above version, Oracle Multitenant

When attempting to change the password of recently created common user ,
the following error occurs.

ERROR
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ERROR at line 1:
ORA-65048: error encountered when processing the current DDL statement in pluggable database PDB2
ORA-01435: user does not exist


STEPS
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New common user is not able to change it's password if there is a PDB in Read only mode.

SQL> show pdbs

  CON_ID CON_NAME                       OPEN MODE  RESTRICTED
---------- ------------------------------ ---------- ----------
       2 PDB$SEED                       READ ONLY  NO
       3 PDB1                           MOUNTED
       4 PDB2                          READ ONLY  NO

SQL>Create user c##user1 identified by ***;

SQL> exit

SQL> sqlplus c##user1

SQL> alter user c##user1 identified by *** replace ***;
alter user c##user1 identified by *** replace ***
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-65048: error encountered when processing the current DDL statement in pluggable database PDB2
ORA-01435: user does not exist

This was not an issue in 12.1, it is an issue only in 12.2/18c/19c beta DB

Cause

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