Re: public schema default ACL

On Sat, Mar 3, 2018 at 4:56 AM, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com> wrote:
> Commit 5770172 ("Document security implications of search_path and the public
> schema.") is largely a workaround for the fact that the boot_val of
> search_path contains "public" while template0 gets "GRANT CREATE, USAGE ON
> SCHEMA public TO PUBLIC". It's like having world-writable /usr/bin. The
> security team opted not to change that in released branches, but we thought to
> revisit it later. I propose, for v11, switching to "GRANT USAGE ON SCHEMA
> public TO PUBLIC" (omit CREATE). Concerns? An alternative is to change the
> default search_path to "$user"; that would be break more applications, and I
> don't see an advantage to compensate for that.

Isn't this going to cause widespread breakage? Unprivileged users
will suddenly find that they can no longer create tables, because
$user doesn't exist and they don't have permission on public. That
seems quite unfriendly.

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