Re: Discovering privileges

From: Murray Cumming <murrayc(at)murrayc(dot)com>
To: Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org>
Cc: pgsql-interfaces <pgsql-interfaces(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Discovering privileges
Date: 2005-03-20 16:45:29
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On Sun, 2005-03-20 at 08:42 -0700, Michael Fuhr wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 03:50:30PM +0100, Murray Cumming wrote:
>
> > I'm using the pg_user and pg_group system tables to discover the list of
> > users, and the groups to which they belong.
> >
> > But how can I discover the privileges that these users and groups have
> > for the various tables. Is this also in one of the system tables?
>
> You could look at pg_class.relacl,

I can't make much sense of that so far. Ca you give any clues on how
that works?

> but the "Access Privilege Inquiry
> Functions" (has_table_privilege(), etc.) might be easier to use.
>
> http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.0/interactive/functions-info.html#FUNCTIONS-INFO-ACCESS-TABLE

Interesting. Is there anything like that for a group instead of a user?
I'm most interested in privileges of a group.

Thanks.

--
Murray Cumming
murrayc(at)murrayc(dot)com
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