From: | "scott(dot)marlowe" <scott(dot)marlowe(at)ihs(dot)com> |
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To: | Pallav Kalva <pkalva(at)deg(dot)cc> |
Cc: | <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Permissions not working |
Date: | 2004-04-29 21:59:11 |
Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.33.0404291558160.11110-100000@css120.ihs.com |
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On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Pallav Kalva wrote:
> scott.marlowe wrote:
>
> >On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Pallav Kalva wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >>Hi ,
> >>
> >> I am having some problems with setting up permissions in Postgres. I
> >>have a database for ex: 'ups' and it was owned previously by
> >>'postgres(superuser)' but now i have changed the ownership to new user
> >>'ups' all the tables are owned by these user 'ups'. This database doesnt
> >>have any schemas except for 'Public'. I have created another user lets
> >>say 'test' and i didnt give 'test' user any permissions to access the
> >>tables owned by 'ups' but still when i login to 'ups' database as psql
> >>ups test and run a select on the tables owned by 'ups' database it
> >>goes through.
> >> I dont want user 'test' to access any tables from the 'ups'
> >>database, i tried revoking permissions it still doesnt work. Can anyone
> >>tell me what is wrong here ?
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Log in as the superuser (usually postgres) and see what you get from this
> >query:
> >
> >select usesuper from pg_shadow where usename='test';
> >
> >if usesuper is t, then test is a superuser and can do anything he wants.
> >You need to issue the command:
> >
> >alter user test with nocreateuser;
> >
> >If that isn't the problem, let us know.
> >
> >
> Thanks! for the quick reply, I ran the above query and it is 'f' for the
> 'test' user, 'test' is not a super user.
Ok, then what does
\z tablename
where tablename is one of the tables you don't want test to access.
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