Re: Port Reports: UnixWare/Failure/Priviledge Test

From: Larry Rosenman <ler(at)lerctr(dot)org>
To: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: Port Reports: UnixWare/Failure/Priviledge Test
Date: 2003-10-29 20:35:06
Message-ID: 86740000.1067459705@lerlaptop-red.iadfw.net
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--On Wednesday, October 29, 2003 15:26:39 -0500 Tom Lane
<tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
[snip]
> Is this a bug, or is it correct-per-spec behavior? It's surely likely
> to confuse people. I wonder whether superusers shouldn't be allowed to
> revoke privileges granted by other people. As the code stands, they
> cannot.
It seems to me that a superuser SHOULD be able to affect ANY permissions on
ANY object in the DB.

[snip]

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