Re: Can't get MS Access via ODBC (or MapServer) to 'see' the data unless the user is a 'super user'...

You are good at this! :-) That was it...

I don't remember changing those... it is maybe because my 'production'
database is in the PUBLIC schema??

(would like to change this as I have now read that PUBLIC schemas have
'default' user rights for the logged in user rights that overrides those
that - but have (manually) emulated the relationships in the ODBC-linked
tables in MS Access - to help in Query Manager, etc - and don't want to
set that up again, at least not right now! [aside - I am thinking a long
term 'project' would be to write some VBA in Access that grabs/tests
(??) all the PK/FK relationships in the linked tables and sets them up
in the relationships in Access 'automagically'...; and then maybe if I
am feeling even braver something that sets the lookup display controls
in the Access linked tables based on the FKs... although maybe they
would not save on linked tables?])

Anyway... :-)

Cheers:

GREG COCKS

gcocks(at)stoller(dot)com <mailto:gcocks(at)stoller(dot)com>

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From: Obe, Regina [mailto:robe(dot)dnd(at)cityofboston(dot)gov]
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 10:46 AM
To: Greg Cocks
Cc: PostgreSQL List - Novice; pgsql-odbc(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: RE: [NOVICE] Can't get MS Access via ODBC (or MapServer) to
'see' the data unless the user is a 'super user'...

I'm not quite sure about how the switching from Group Role to Login
Role happened.

Actually there really isn't a difference between Login Role and Group
Roles. They are both Roles. Login Role is really a subclass of Group
Role or just rather role so to speak

A login role is simply a Group role with the attribute Login checked.
PgAdmin just groups them differently mostly for historical reasons I
think and because people are used to thinking in terms of Groups and
Logins.

Maybe somehow the Login checkbox got checked. If you pull them up in
PgAdmin III do you see the Login checkbox checked on them?

Hope that helps,

Regina

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From: Greg Cocks [mailto:gcocks(at)stoller(dot)com]
Sent: Mon 12/3/2007 12:42 PM
To: Obe, Regina
Cc: PostgreSQL List - Novice; pgsql-odbc(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: RE: [NOVICE] Can't get MS Access via ODBC (or MapServer) to
'see' the data unless the user is a 'super user'...

Regina,

Perfect - that was it... fixed it up for both MapServer and ODBC...

With hindsight, this seems logical of course - but wasn't not made clear
in the reference text I am using, at least to me ("PostgreSQL 8 for
Windows")) - part of the whole newbie thing I guess... :-)

(Confirmed that I was logging in as FRED (sic) to phpPgAdmin without
inheritance, just tested... hmmm... more to learn!)

(aside - the three *group* roles I set up for my main 'production'
database have somehow 'migrated' to *login* roles when I look at them
after restating the Widows service and reopening pgAdmin - but still
seem to be working as group roles (I think...) - pgAdmin v1.8.0 revision
dated 10/19/07 and PostgreSQL )

Cheers:
GREG COCKS
gcocks |at| stoller.com

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-----Original Message-----
From: Obe, Regina [mailto:robe(dot)dnd(at)cityofboston(dot)gov]
Sent: Monday, December 03, 2007 5:23 AM
To: Greg Cocks; PostgreSQL List - Novice
Subject: RE: [NOVICE] Can't get MS Access via ODBC (or MapServer) to
'see' the data unless the user is a 'super user'...

Its strange that it works in PhpPgAdmin unless you aren't really
logging in as Fred as you think you are.

Assuming your privledges are set correctly on your group, I would
suspect that maybe you don't have Fred set to inherit rights from parent
roles.

That threw me for a loop the first time I saw it that you can have a
role that is not set to inherit rights from its parent roles. So in
order for it to use the rights of its parent, it has to do a set role or
be set to inherit.

So to make sure a login is set to inherit rights from its parent role,
make sure you have something like

CREATE ROLE fred LOGIN
NOSUPERUSER INHERIT NOCREATEDB NOCREATEROLE;
GRANT mapservgroup TO fred;

Hope that helps,
Regina

-----Original Message-----
From: pgsql-novice-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org
[mailto:pgsql-novice-owner(at)postgresql(dot)org] On Behalf Of Greg Cocks
Sent: Friday, November 30, 2007 2:58 PM
To: PostgreSQL List - Novice
Subject: [NOVICE] Can't get MS Access via ODBC (or MapServer) to 'see'
the data unless the user is a 'super user'...

Hello,

Yep, a newbie, at least to PostgreSQL + ODBC / MapServer... :-)

I have:

- built and populated a PostgreSQL database (including PostGIS, in case
that matters in this case)

- set up ODBC (using psqlodbc-08_02_0500), using the Unicode version as
a System DNS

- successfully connected to the tables in PostgreSQL from an Access
'front end' I built, updated tables, etc, etc

The user in PostgreSQL/ODBC was a super user - lets call that user
FRED...

Wanting now to 'lock this down' a bit security-wise, I:

- set FRED as *not* being a Super User

- made a new group role, lets call that grpWrite

- assigned (sic) FRED to grpWrite

- set the GRANT permissions on all the non-system tables to be SELECT,
INSERT, DELETE and UPDATE (took me a bit to find and use that
function!), so the grpWrite privileges on each non-system table reads
'arwdx'

- *tested FRED with phpPgAdmin - works just as expected*, full read
write access to the data - but NOT things such as vacuum, etc

- checked the TEST on my ODBC driver, 'CONNECTION SUCCESSFUL'

When I go to the Access 'front end' now, I can refresh all the tables in
the Linked Table Manager (suggest the CONNECT is A-OK) but when I try
and view data in a table, etc I get the error in MS Access:

ODBC--call failed
ERROR: permission denied for relation <table_name>;
Error while executing the query (#7)

Tried, with no luck:

- setting the GRANT on the group role to include REFERENCES

- opening the MS Access database on the PostgreSQL server

- as a last resort, setting the GRANT in grpWrite to ALL

The minute I change FRED back to being a Super User, works like a
charm...

** Suggestions and experiences gratefully accepted! **

Note that MapServer has the same need for FRED (sic) to be a Super
User...

Thanks in advance!

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Regards,
GREG COCKS
GIS Analyst V
Gcocks |at| stoller.com
S. M. Stoller Corp
105 Technology Drive, Suite 190
Broomfield, CO 80021
www.stoller.com
303-546-4300
303-443-1408 fax
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