ORA-01935: missing user or role name

Question

Hello. I'm trying to change a users password, logged in as SYS. I'm using the script:
ALTER USER dross IDENTIFIED BY 1111;
Also tried:
ALTER USER "dross" IDENTIFIED BY "1111";
ALTER USER 'dross' IDENTIFIED BY '1111';
ALTER USER 'dross' IDENTIFIED BY 1111;
ALTER USER "dross" IDENTIFIED BY 1111;
Any suggestions on what I could do?

Answer 1

sb92075 wrote:
is username 'DROSS' or 'dross'?Makes no difference. If user doesn't exist ALTER USER spits out
ORA-01918: user 'XXX' does not existnot
ORA-01935: missing user or role name To get the above error username must be omitted:
SQL> ALTER USER IDENTIFIED BY XYZ
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ALTER USER IDENTIFIED BY XYZ
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-01935: missing user or role nameSo ALTER USER statements OP posted doesn't add up with error that is raised. Have a feeling ALTER USER is generated dynamically and somehow username is NULL.
SY.