Oracle Application Server Portal Handbook

User Privileges

If you’ve worked with databases, you know that, as a user, you need certain privileges granted to you before you can do anything inside of the database. You may have system privileges granted to you that allow you to create a table or index or drop a sequence. You may also have object privileges granted to you that allow you to select or delete data from a specific table. These privileges can also be grouped together into roles that can then be granted to database users to make the assignment of privileges easier in large systems.

Similarly, OracleAS Portal has a privilege-based system that is used to allow or restrict users to OracleAS Portal–based objects like pages and portlets. At the bottom of the Oracle Identity Management ...