Re: Help with privilages please - Mailing list pgsql-sql

From Andrew Hammond
Subject Re: Help with privilages please
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Msg-id 1153942196.315797.27900@75g2000cwc.googlegroups.com
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In response to Re: Help with privilages please  (Hilary Forbes <hforbes@dmr.co.uk>)
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7.4.1 is quite old and has a number of serious known bugs. I'd suggest
you either upgrade to 8.1.4 (current) or, if you can't do that, at
least upgrade to 7.4.13 (latest 7.4) immediately.


Hilary Forbes wrote:
> Tom
>
>  Thank you - I think that the underlying problem is that I was trying out
>
>  REVOKE ALL FROM TABLE suppliers FOR public;
>
>  then connect as hilary and I can still see the table rows.
>
>  I appear to have to revoke each type eg
>  REVOKE SELECT FROM TABLE suppliers FOR public;
>  etc and then the code works.
>
>  Is this a known bug in this version (7.4.1)?
>
>  Thanks
>  Hilary
>
>
>  At 18:08 20/07/2006 -0400, Tom Lane wrote:
>
>  Hilary Forbes <hforbes@dmr.co.uk> writes:
>  > I have an existing table suppliers and I have created a new user
>  > 'hilary'<br><br>
>  > REVOKE ALL on TABLE suppliers FROM hilary;<br><br>
>  > now login as hilary<br>
>  > SELECT * from suppliers;<br>
>  > and I get all the records!!!<br><br>
>
>  Most likely there's been a grant of (at least) select privilege to PUBLIC.
>  You'll need to revoke that if you don't want every user to have that
>  privilege implicitly.
>
>                          regards, tom lane
>
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