Is `GRANT CREATE SESSION to "MYROLE"` working in Oracle 12 database?

Question

In a Oracle Database 12c Enterprise Edition Release 12.1.0.2.0 - 64bit Production I'm trying to assign the CREATE SESSION privilege to a custom role MYROLE and then assign MYROLE role to MYUSER user.

GRANT CREATE SESSION to "MYROLE"
GRANT "MYROLE" to "MYUSER"

When I try to connect I received:

ORA-01045: user MYUSER lacks CREATE SESSION privilege; logon denied

What am I missing?

If I give CREATE SESSION grant directly to MYUSER it works.

EDIT:

I think that my issue was related to the fact that MYUSER hadn't a DEFAULT ROLE.

Answer 1

You might be connected to wrong container database, probably CDB.

Here is a demo which is working fine for me.

I am connected to orclpdb, a pluggable database as sysdba.

[oracle@oracdb ~]$ sqlplus sys@orclpdb as sysdba

SQL*Plus: Release 12.1.0.2.0 Production on Wed Sep 20 15:26:59 2017

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Enter password:

Connected to:
Oracle Database 12c Enterprise Edition Release 12.1.0.2.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP, Advanced Analytics and Real Application Testing options

SQL> create role myrole;

Role created.

SQL> grant create session to myrole;

Grant succeeded.

SQL> create user testuser identified by testuser;

User created.

SQL> grant myrole to testuser;

Grant succeeded.

SQL> conn testuser/testuser@orclpdb
Connected.
SQL>