Re: User with "almost" superuser privileges - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: User with "almost" superuser privileges
Date
Msg-id 20130809165809.GB3341@momjian.us
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In response to Re: User with "almost" superuser privileges  (Daniel Gomez Blanco <nanodgb@gmail.com>)
List pgsql-novice
On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 03:06:07PM +0200, Daniel Gomez Blanco wrote:
> Hi Luca,
>
> Thanks for the list, it actually helped a lot! :) I just wished there was like
> a summary of what a superuser can do...

The larger problem is that if your super-user can do one of a handful of
things, they can then do the others by just using those few permissions.
It is like asking what 'root' can do on a Unix system.

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