Re: Removing Users and Revoking Privileges - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Martijn van Oosterhout
Subject Re: Removing Users and Revoking Privileges
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Msg-id 20080229202618.GC28668@svana.org
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In response to Removing Users and Revoking Privileges  (Carl McCalla <Carl.Mccalla@noaa.gov>)
List pgsql-general
On Fri, Feb 29, 2008 at 01:12:50PM -0500, Carl McCalla wrote:
> What I have been unable to do successfully is to remove two users who
> should no longer have access to the database or its tables.  As super
> user postgres, I have attempted to REVOKE access privileges for those
> two users, but to no avail.  The REVOKE command appears to work and does
> not generate an error message, however, upon inspection the two users
> remain and continue to have all of the same access privileges they had
> before executing the REVOKE command.

Something that some people trip over is that there's still access for
PUBLIC or access via a role. Perhaps you could show the \z output for
the table in question...

Hope this helps,
--
Martijn van Oosterhout   <kleptog@svana.org>   http://svana.org/kleptog/
> Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
>  -- John F Kennedy

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