Displaying Security Information

The following exercises demonstrate some useful queries that you can use to display information about users, roles, and profiles from your database's data dictionary.

EXERCISE 7.25: Display Information About Users

To display general information about the users in your database, including a user's username, default tablespace, temporary tablespace, and account status, the Manage Database Users page of the Database Home Page is perfectly fine. However, to report information about a user's profile setting (along with the other information), use SQL*Plus or the SQL Commands window of the Database Home Page to query the DBA_USERS data dictionary view while connected as a database administrator; when the columns returned ...

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