ssh to solaris 10 error: “no matching key exchange method found”

I first ran into this error after installing Solaris 10 on a Sun Ultra 60 that I had a while back, but I’ve recently ran into it again installing Solaris 10 on Proxmox:

Unable to negotiate with 192.168.1.95 port 22: no matching key exchange method found. Their offer: gss-group1-sha1-toWM5Slw5Ew8Mqkay+al2g==,diffie-hellman-group-exchange-sha1,diffie-hellman-group14-sha1,diffie-hellman-group1-sha1

The solution to configure my Mac to be able to use older key algorithms was a combination from here and answers on this post.

I edited my ~/.ssh/config and added a Host entry for the ip of my Solaris 10 instance, adding:

Host 192.168.1.95
HostKeyAlgorithms=+ssh-dss,ssh-dss
KexAlgorithms +diffie-hellman-group1-sha1

And now I can just ssh in as normal (no need for any additional params as shown in the first post, as the required options are configured in my .ssh/config.

Creating new Oracle user, new instance

Running Oracle 19c in Docker, I connected with sqlplus and attempted to create a new user:

create user example identified by password;

and got this cryptic error:

ORA-65096: invalid common user or role name

Per answers on this post, this is usually because you connected to the root container database (CDB) instead of a pluggable container database (PDB).

You can cofirm what you are connected to with:

show con_name

and sure enough, I’m connected to CDB$ROOT:

CON_NAME 
------------------------------
CDB$ROOT

List available PDBs with:

show pdbs

shows:

    CON_ID CON_NAME                       OPEN MODE  RESTRICTED
---------- ------------------------------ ---------- ----------
2 PDB$SEED READ ONLY NO
3 ORCLPDB1 READ WRITE NO

Updating my connection properties to connect to SERVICE=ORCLPDB1 and now I’m good.

To grant all privs to a new user:

grant all privileges to username