USERNAME

VARCHAR2(128)

NOT NULL

Name of the user

USER_ID

NUMBER

NOT NULL

ID number of the user

PASSWORD

VARCHAR2(4000)

This column is deprecated in favor of the AUTHENTICATION_TYPE column

ACCOUNT_STATUS

VARCHAR2(32)

NOT NULL

Account status:

• OPEN

• EXPIRED

• EXPIRED(GRACE)

• LOCKED(TIMED)

• LOCKED

• EXPIRED & LOCKED(TIMED)

• EXPIRED(GRACE) & LOCKED(TIMED)

• EXPIRED & LOCKED

• EXPIRED(GRACE) & LOCKED

LOCK_DATE

DATE

Date the account was locked if account status was LOCKED

EXPIRY_DATE

DATE

Date of expiration of the account

DEFAULT_TABLESPACE

VARCHAR2(30)

NOT NULL

Default tablespace for data

TEMPORARY_TABLESPACE

VARCHAR2(30)

NOT NULL

Name of the default tablespace for temporary tables or the name of a tablespace group

LOCAL_TEMP_TABLESPACE

VARCHAR2(30)

Default local temporary tablespace for the user

This column is available starting with Oracle Database 12c Release 2 (12.2.0.1).

CREATED

DATE

NOT NULL

User creation date

PROFILE

VARCHAR2(128)

NOT NULL

User resource profile name

INITIAL_RSRC_CONSUMER_GROUP

VARCHAR2(128)

Initial resource consumer group for the user

EXTERNAL_NAME

VARCHAR2(4000)

User external name

PASSWORD_VERSIONS

VARCHAR2(12)

Shows the list of versions of the password hashes (also known as "verifiers") existing for the account.

The values for this column can include:

• 10G: If an old case-insensitive ORCL hash exists

• 11G: If a SHA-1 hash exists

• 12C: If a de-optimized PBKDF2-based hash exists

• HTTP: If an MD5 hash (for HTTP Digest authentication) exists

For more information about the 12C verifier, see Oracle Database Concepts.

Note that any combination of these verifiers can exist for any given account.

EDITIONS_ENABLED

VARCHAR2(1)

Indicates whether editions have been enabled for the corresponding user (Y) or not (N)

AUTHENTICATION_TYPE

VARCHAR2(8)

Indicates the authentication mechanism for the user:

• EXTERNAL - CREATE USER user1 IDENTIFIED EXTERNALLY;

• GLOBAL - CREATE USER user2 IDENTIFIED GLOBALLY;

• PASSWORD - CREATE USER user3 IDENTIFIED BY user3;

PROXY_ONLY_CONNECT

VARCHAR2(1)

Indicates whether a user can connect directly (N) or whether the account can only be proxied (Y) by users who have proxy privileges for this account (that is, by users who have been granted the "connect through" privilege for this account).

For more information about creating proxy user accounts and authorizing users to connect through them, see Oracle Database Security Guide.

COMMON

VARCHAR2(3)

Indicates whether a given user is common. Possible values

• YES if a user is common

• NO if a user is local (not common)

LAST_LOGIN

TIMESTAMP(9) WITH TIME ZONE

The time of the last user login.

ORACLE_MAINTAINED

VARCHAR2(1)

Denotes whether the user was created, and is maintained, by Oracle-supplied scripts (such as catalog.sql or catproc.sql). A user for which this column has the value Y must not be changed in any way except by running an Oracle-supplied script.

INHERITED

VARCHAR2(3)

Indicates whether the user definition was inherited from another container (YES) or not (NO)

This column is available starting with Oracle Database 12c Release 2 (12.2.0.1).

DEFAULT_COLLATION

VARCHAR2(100)

Default collation for the user’s schema

This column is available starting with Oracle Database 12c Release 2 (12.2.0.1).

IMPLICIT

VARCHAR2(3)

Indicates whether this user is a common user created by an implicit application (YES) or not (NO)

This column is available starting with Oracle Database 12c Release 2 (12.2.0.1).

ALL_SHARD

VARCHAR2(3)

In a sharded database, the value in this column indicates whether the user was created with shard DDL enabled. The possible values are:

• YES: The user was created with shard DDL enabled. The user exists on all shards and the shard catalog.

• NO: The user was created without shard DDL enabled. The user exists only in the database in which the user was created.

In a non-sharded database, the value in this column is always NO.

This column is available starting with Oracle Database 12c Release 2 (12.2.0.1).