What is proper permission for this command?

Question

Hello,
What is the proper permission for this command:
SQL> CREATE OR REPLACE DIRECTORY EXT_TABLES AS 'C:\temp\';
CREATE OR REPLACE DIRECTORY EXT_TABLES AS 'C:\temp\'
ERROR in line 1:
ORA-01031: insuficient privileges
Thank you vey much indeed.
Sincerely yours,
André Luiz

Answer 1

Dont' grant create any directory to your users. This is big security hole!
You can read/write every file on the server with the file permissions of the Oracle user.
You better grant explicitly only the necessary privileges to your user, as I demonstrated in your other thread
Issue as user SYS
create directory EXT_TABLES as 'c:\ext_tables';
grant read,write on directory ext_tables to scott;
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