Re: Big problem

On Mon, 2004-05-24 at 16:03, Christopher Kings-Lynne wrote:
> > Isn't it just enough to prevent the user with userid 1 from losing the
> > superuser status. If one want to allow it one could prevent it just when
> > doing the ALTER USER stuff and allow it when editing pg_shadow directly.
> > Or maybe have some guc variable that write locks the user with id 1.
>
> That gets my vote - can't take superuser off id 1...

Gets my vote too, postgres user can't take superuser off.

>
> > Given that it was so "simple" to restore I'm not sure if it's worth it or
> > not, but restricting just user 1 does not give any of the problems you
> > wrote about.
>
> Well, sergio sure wasn't very happy...
yes I wasn't but "Stop postmaster and start a standalone backend. Now
you are asuperuser, and you can create a new superuser, or just go in
and UPDATE pg_shadow to make your original user super again. Exit
standalone backend, restart postmaster, have a beer."
worked !

thanks ,

>
> And if I ever get around to my patch that separates out superuser and
> catalog modification privileges, superusers will no longer necessarily
> be able to 'delete from pg_proc';
>
> Chris
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Sérgio M. B.