| From: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> |
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| To: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
| Cc: | Guillaume LELARGE <guillaume(dot)lelarge(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: Something I don't understand with the use of schemas |
| Date: | 2005-12-10 17:24:54 |
| Message-ID: | 20051210172453.GD3856@surnet.cl |
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)commandprompt(dot)com> writes:
> > However there is an effort to get rid of root in some Unix lands,
> > separating its responsabilities with more granularity. Maybe there
> > could be an effort, not to hand-hold the true superusers, but to
> > delegate some of its responsabilities to other users.
>
> We did that already (see CREATEROLE privilege in 8.1)
Part of it. We can still improve, I think. Not that I have a concrete
proposal to make though.
Regarding CREATEROLE, I wonder why is that a role with that privilege is
able to create other roles containing any privileges (except
superuserness), and not just the privileges the creating role has.
--
Alvaro Herrera http://www.CommandPrompt.com/
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