rats, in OracleXE DB a create user no longer works unless....

create user PIPPO IDENTIFIED BY PIPPO

Fehlerbericht -
ORA-65096: Ungültiger allgemeiner Benutzer- oder Rollenname
65096. 00000 -  "invalid common user or role name"
*Cause:    An attempt was made to create a common user or role with a name
           that was not valid for common users or roles.  In addition to
           the usual rules for user and role names, common user and role
           names must start with C## or c## and consist only of ASCII
           characters.
*Action:   Specify a valid common user or role name.

googling around I find that you must preceed the commmand with:

alter session set "_ORACLE_SCRIPT"=true;

create user PIPPO IDENTIFIED BY PIPPO;

grant create session to PIPPO;
GRANT CONNECT, RESOURCE, CREATE VIEW TO PIPPO;
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES to PIPPO;
create table USERS (id NUMBER GENERATED BY DEFAULT AS IDENTITY, name varchar(100) );

This is simply ridiculous.