Re: 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
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