Re: [HACKERS] ACL's

From: jwieck(at)debis(dot)com (Jan Wieck)
To: maillist(at)candle(dot)pha(dot)pa(dot)us (Bruce Momjian)
Cc: auer(at)kom(dot)id(dot)ethz(dot)ch, jwieck(at)debis(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] ACL's
Date: 1998-10-22 08:50:17
Message-ID: m0zWGRl-000EBPC@orion.SAPserv.Hamburg.dsh.de
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> [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...]
> > I think it should stay that way - being able to deny oneself a privilege is a
> > good way to make sure that one does what one does consciously. I know the
> > root password on many machines, but I still do almost everything through a
> > normal account - that way I have to make a conscious decison to become
> > dangerous :-) and if I accidentaly try to do something dangerous as an
> > ordinary user a) it doesn't happen and b) I'm reminded how dangerous it is.
> > I still have the ability to do dangerous things, I just have to take an extra
> > step.
>
> What do other DB's do. I assume they give the owner permission.

Hmmm... so it's a TODO for 6.5 after beeing discussed.

Jan

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