Re: REVOKE not working...

From: Joe Maldonado <jmaldonado(at)webehosting(dot)biz>
To: Scott Marlowe <smarlowe(at)qwest(dot)net>
Cc: pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: REVOKE not working...
Date: 2004-10-21 16:49:24
Message-ID: 4177E894.4060604@webehosting.biz
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Scott Marlowe wrote:

>On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 08:17, Joe Maldonado wrote:
>
>
>>Hello all,
>> I have created users for which I have restricted access to SELECT
>>from a set of tables, this works :)
>> But when I issue a REVOKE CREATE ON DATABASE mydb FROM myuser;
>>The user can still create tables...I've also issued this command for the
>>SCHEMA and still no go.
>>
>>Is this a known problem, if so how can I restrict users from creating
>>objects in my db?
>>
>>
>
>Is myuser a superuser? If so, you can revoke all you want and he'll
>still be able to do anything he wants. Also, I think that if myuser
>owns the current database he can always create tables in it.
>
>
>
>
myuser is not a superuser. is the public schema special in that you
cannot revoke create privileges from users accessing it?

-Joe

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