Re: Can I grant permissions to specific set of uids (linux) ?

From: "David G(dot) Johnston" <david(dot)g(dot)johnston(at)gmail(dot)com>
To: David Gauthier <davegauthierpg(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-generallists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Can I grant permissions to specific set of uids (linux) ?
Date: 2018-03-06 21:33:44
Message-ID: CAKFQuwZfPphBimfb+gWFTQkiuV8zLT8iE8QzxLwUxBU6igtoQw@mail.gmail.com
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On Tue, Mar 6, 2018 at 1:26 PM, David Gauthier <davegauthierpg(at)gmail(dot)com>
wrote:

> Hi:
>
> I'd like to grant select, insert, update, delete to a table for a specific
> set of uids (linux). All others get select only. Can the DB authenticate
> the current linux user and grant access based on the fact that they are
> logged in ()IOW, no passwords ? Is this possible ? If so, how ?
>
>
​see

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/10/static/auth-methods.html#AUTH-PEER

Note it authenticates by the name, not the numeric value.

​If that doesn't cover your need the answer to your question is probably no.

David J.

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