ORA-01031 SYSMAN Insufficient Privileges Creating a new user

Question

I have installed Oracle 11g R2 onto Windows 7 64bit
I then created a new database, at the end it moaned about the service and listener was not running or allocated to each other and also there was no web admin tool available.
To resolve this I managed to use Net Configuration Assistant to get the listener sorted.
I then had to run:
set ORACLE_HOSTNAME=localhost
set ORACLE_SID=mydb
set ORACLE_UNQNAME=mydb
I then ran
emca -config dbcontrol db -repos recreate
This gave me the web admin tool to create a new user.
I logged in as SYSMAN tried to create a new user and got the "ORA-01031 Insufficient Privileges, you do not have enough privileges to perform this operation." error
Can someone please help.
Thanks

Answer 1

It isn't that simple. As SYSMAN used for 11.2.0.3 database control:
orcl>  select privilege from user_sys_privs;
PRIVILEGE
CREATE PUBLIC SYNONYM
SELECT ANY DICTIONARY
UNLIMITED TABLESPACE
ALTER SESSION
orcl>but as SYSMAN used for 12.1 Cloud Control:SQL> select privilege from user_sys_privs;
PRIVILEGE
ALTER USER
DROP USER
CREATE SESSION
CREATE PUBLIC SYNONYM
CREATE JOB
CREATE MATERIALIZED VIEW
SELECT ANY DICTIONARY
CREATE TABLE
ALTER SESSION
CREATE USER
CREATE SYNONYM
DROP PUBLIC SYNONYM
MANAGE SCHEDULER
CREATE VIEW
CREATE DATABASE LINK
15 rows selected.
SQL>so you have to be a bit careful when you give a yes/no answer.
Edited by: JohnWatson on Nov 12, 2012 11:38 AM
Forgot to include a quote: this is replying to the question about whether SYSMAN can create users.