When OCI doesn’t know who you are
When you are logged into your Oracle Cloud account and they give you a link to follow, which should bring you to another page in your account, but it doesn’t. The link (which is automatically generated by OCI) is formed incorrectly and gives you something like the following.
Have a look at the address bar. You will see a part saying /users/undefined. That’s the problem, the link was not defined or created correctly. Although you are logged into your account, in theory, things like this should work correctly and from talking to other people about their OCI accounts, they don’t have the same problem, as it just works as expected.
What can you do to work around this? The first thing you need to do is locate your user OCID. This is located on some Services pages in OCI. Alternatively, go to Users in the Identity & Security menu section.
Now go back to the page/link which gives the error, as shown in the first image, locate the undefined work in the address bar, and replace it with the OCID for the user. The link will look something like this (only a subset of link is shown.
https://cloud.oracle.com/identity/users/ocid1.user.oc1..a
The page should now load without any errors.
What’s causing this error? That’s a good question and the true answer to it is unknown (at this point in time). But from some investigation and comparing my OCI account with other people there does seem to be some anomalies with my OCI user accounts and syncing of these between OCI classic and the current version. My OCI account is missing a federated account. I’m not sure if this is the exact difference but it does seem to be a missing element when compared to other people’s accounts. Why has this happened to me? Well that is something for the OCI teams who looks after setting up accounts to look into. Maybe there are others out there.
In the mean time, if you have encountered the same problem as me, the fix/solution outlined above should work for you.
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