ORA-65096: invalid common user or role name During Create User in Oracle

You can get ” ORA-65096: invalid common user or role name ” error while creating new user in Oracle 12c.

ORA-65096: invalid common user or role name

When i create new user in Oracle 12c , i got following error.

[oracle@MehmetSalih ]$ sqlplus / as sysdba

SQL*Plus: Release 12.1.0.2.0 Production on Thu Mar 21 10:01:05 2019

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Connected to:
Oracle Database 12c Enterprise Edition Release 12.1.0.2.0 - 64bit Production
With the Partitioning, OLAP, Advanced Analytics and Real Application Testing options

SQL> create user mehmet identified by mehmet;
create user mehmet identified by mehmet
*
ERROR at line 1:
ORA-65096: invalid common user or role name

invalid common user or role name

To solve this problem, execute following query and try to create new user again.

alter session set "_ORACLE_SCRIPT"=true;

ORA-65096

If you got this error on Container database, then it is related with the user creation on pluggable and container database.

If you use Container and Pluggable database, you can create only common users which start with c## in root container.

SQL> show con_name

CON_NAME
------------------------------
CDB$ROOT


SQL> create user c##MSDBA identified by MSDBA123;

User created.

If you created any common user on both root container and pluggable database, then this user can log in to any container. You need to give the priviliges separately within each pluggable database.

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