I am a bit puzzled, maybe I am getting rusty. I need to create a user with bare minimum permissions: CREATE USER bb_stage IDENTIFIED BY "password" DEFAULT TABLESPACE users TEMPORARY TABLESPACE TEMP; GRANT CONNECT TO bb_stage; ALTER USER bb_stage QUOTA UNLIMITED ON "USERS"; Connect role only has create session. Public has no privileges. However the newly created user can create and drop tables. I am trying to find where it's coming from. Any idea??? -- //www.freelists.org/webpage/oracle-l