$ su oracle $ sqlplus / as sysdba CREATE USER odb_test IDENTIFIED BY odb_test DEFAULT TABLESPACE users TEMPORARY TABLESPACE temp; GRANT CREATE TABLE, CREATE SEQUENCE, CREATE TRIGGER, CREATE SESSION, UNLIMITED TABLESPACE TO odb_test; ======= If running an OCI-based client under valgrind you get "ORA-12546: TNS: permission denied", then you need to set the TWO_TASK environment variable: export TWO_TASK= For example: export TWO_TASK=xe