| From: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> |
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| To: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Alvaro Herrera <alvherre(at)alvh(dot)no-ip(dot)org>, Mark Dilger <mark(dot)dilger(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Jacob Champion <pchampion(at)vmware(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "chap(at)anastigmatix(dot)net" <chap(at)anastigmatix(dot)net>, torikoshia <torikoshia(at)oss(dot)nttdata(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: Delegating superuser tasks to new security roles (Was: Granting control of SUSET gucs to non-superusers) |
| Date: | 2021-07-26 21:01:56 |
| Message-ID: | 216264.1627333316@sss.pgh.pa.us |
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Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> writes:
> ... Tom's suggestion
> would work, of course, but it would mean having to create event triggers
> for all the roles in the system, and would those roles who own those
> event triggers be able to disable them..?
Uh, why not? If you own the trigger, you can drop it, so why shouldn't
you be able to temporarily disable it?
> If so, it would almost
> certainly be against the point of an auditing event trigger..
If you want auditing capability, you make an auditor role that is
a member of every other role, and then it owns the trigger. (If
you need to audit superuser actions too, then the auditor has to
be a superuser itself, but that's no worse than before; and I'd
argue that non-superusers shouldn't be able to audit superusers
anyway.)
regards, tom lane
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