Listing privileges recursively for Oracle users

Users to roles and system privileges

This is a script that shows the hierarchical relationship betweensystem privileges, roles and users.

It makes use of Oracles connect by SQL idiom.

select
  lpad(' ', 2*level) || granted_role "User, his roles and privileges"
from
  (
  /* THE USERS */
    select 
      null     grantee, 
      username granted_role
    from 
      dba_users
    where
      username like upper('%&enter_username%')
  /* THE ROLES TO ROLES RELATIONS */ 
  union
    select 
      grantee,
      granted_role
    from
      dba_role_privs
  /* THE ROLES TO PRIVILEGE RELATIONS */ 
  union
    select
      grantee,
      privilege
    from
      dba_sys_privs
  )
start with grantee is null
connect by grantee = prior granted_role;

System privileges to roles and users

This is also possible the other way round: showing the system privileges in relation to roles that have been granted this privilege and users that have been granted either this privilege or a role:

select
  lpad(' ', 2*level) || c "Privilege, Roles and Users"
from
  (
  /* THE PRIVILEGES */
    select 
      null   p, 
      name   c
    from 
      system_privilege_map
    where
      name like upper('%&enter_privliege%')
  /* THE ROLES TO ROLES RELATIONS */ 
  union
    select 
      granted_role  p,
      grantee       c
    from
      dba_role_privs
  /* THE ROLES TO PRIVILEGE RELATIONS */ 
  union
    select
      privilege     p,
      grantee       c
    from
      dba_sys_privs
  )
start with p is null
connect by p = prior c;

Object privileges

select
  case when level = 1 then own || '.' || obj || ' (' || typ || ')' else
  lpad (' ', 2*(level-1)) || obj || nvl2 (typ, ' (' || typ || ')', null)
  end
from
  (
  /* THE OBJECTS */
    select 
      null          p1, 
      null          p2,
      object_name   obj,
      owner         own,
      object_type   typ
    from 
      dba_objects
    where
       owner not in 
        ('SYS', 'SYSTEM', 'WMSYS', 'SYSMAN','MDSYS','ORDSYS','XDB', 'WKSYS', 'EXFSYS', 
         'OLAPSYS', 'DBSNMP', 'DMSYS','CTXSYS','WK_TEST', 'ORDPLUGINS', 'OUTLN')
      and object_type not in ('SYNONYM', 'INDEX')
  /* THE OBJECT TO PRIVILEGE RELATIONS */ 
  union
    select
      table_name p1,
      owner      p2,
      grantee,
      grantee,
      privilege
    from
      dba_tab_privs
  /* THE ROLES TO ROLES/USERS RELATIONS */ 
  union
    select 
      granted_role  p1,
      granted_role  p2,
      grantee,
      grantee,
      null
    from
      dba_role_privs
  )
start with p1 is null and p2 is null
connect by p1 = prior obj and p2 = prior own;

Ref: http://www.adp-gmbh.ch/ora/misc/recursively_list_privilege.html

Fyi: http://dba.fyicenter.com/faq/oracle/Show-Privilege-of-the-Current-User.html

select * from dba_tab_privs where GRANTEE='USERNAME';