Re: Delegating superuser tasks to new security roles (Was: Granting control of SUSET gucs to non-superusers)

From: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: Isaac Morland <isaac(dot)morland(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net>, Mark Dilger <mark(dot)dilger(at)enterprisedb(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: 2021-07-27 15:27:12
Message-ID: CA+TgmoYF6EtxXQ8Z5w=rOHesOs9sG6HHL5ikrbV3hS=KoFG7zQ@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Jul 27, 2021 at 10:24 AM Isaac Morland <isaac(dot)morland(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> Isn’t this backwards? If all those roles are members of "tenant" then they can do anything "tenant" can do. The reverse might work - make "tenant" a member of all the related roles - although I haven’t thought through in detail.

Dang it, yes. The tenant needs to be members of all the other users,
not the other way around. I spent a long time trying to not get that
backwards and still did.

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Robert Haas
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