Re: REVOKE not working...

Scott Marlowe wrote:

>On Thu, 2004-10-21 at 10:49, Joe Maldonado wrote:
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>>Scott Marlowe wrote:
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>>>On Wed, 2004-10-20 at 08:17, Joe Maldonado wrote:
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>>>>Hello all,
>>>> I have created users for which I have restricted access to SELECT
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>>>>from a set of tables, this works :)
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>>>> 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.
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>>>>Is this a known problem, if so how can I restrict users from creating
>>>>objects in my db?
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>>>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.
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>>myuser is not a superuser. is the public schema special in that you
>>cannot revoke create privileges from users accessing it?
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>Is myuser the creator of the database in question?
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Nope.

-Joe