CREATE USER user-name [ IDENTIFIED BY password ]
 [ LOGIN POLICY policy-name ]
 [ FORCE PASSWORD CHANGE { ON | OFF } ]

You do not have to specify a password for the user. A user without a password cannot connect to the database. This is useful if you are creating a group and do not want anyone to connect to the database using the group user ID. A user ID must be a valid identifier.

DBA authority

None.

• CREATE LOGIN POLICY statement
• ALTER LOGIN POLICY statement
• ALTER USER statement
• COMMENT statement
• DROP LOGIN POLICY statement
• DROP USER statement
• Login policies
• Creating a user and assigning a login policy
• GRANT statement
• min_password_length option

The following example creates a user named SQLTester with the password welcome. The SQLTester user is assigned to the Test1 login policy and the password expires on the next login.

CREATE USER SQLTester IDENTIFIED BY welcome
LOGIN POLICY Test1
FORCE PASSWORD CHANGE ON;

The following example creates a group named MyGroup

CREATE USER MyGroup;
GRANT GROUP TO MyGroup;