The window consists of three parts. First the toolbar on top, to the left is a list of all the users and roles. Finally to the left is a tabbed window containing the different settings and privileges you can manipulate for the chosen user.
Refresh | Update the user and role list to the left of the screen. |
Save changes | Perform any changes made to the current user or role. |
Remove | Drop the user or role currently selected. If the user still owns objects a question will be asked about also removing these objects or abort the drop. |
New user | Start defining a new user. |
New role | Start defining a new role. |
Copy | Copy the current user or role to a new name. |
SQL | Display the SQL that will be used to apply the current changes in a memo editor. |
Change connection | Change the connection to administrate security for. |
You select the role you want to work on simply by pressing it in the left pane or any of the new user, new role or copy buttons to start defining a new one.
General | Used for setting the name, authentication, default tablespaces etc. for the new user. For more information about this see the Oracle SQL Reference. | |
Roles | Which roles are granted to the user or role. For more information about defining privileges see the section below. | |
System privileges | Which system privileges this user or role should have. For more information about defining privileges see the section below. | |
Object privileges | Which privileges this user or role should have on specific schema objects. For more information about defining privileges see the section below. | |
Quota | Define the quota for the user, this tab is not available for roles. For more information about defining quotas see the section below. |