Re: Database permissions - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Dado Feigenblatt
Subject Re: Database permissions
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Msg-id 3C10F616.5070202@wildbrain.com
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In response to Database permissions  (Tommi Mäkitalo <t.maekitalo@epgmbh.de>)
Responses Re: Database permissions
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Tommi Mäkitalo wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I would like to create permissions on databases. I have a server,
> where different applications from different accounts use my database.
> It would be nice, if a user can access his database, but not the
> others. I know, that I can set up table-permissions, but no database
> permissions. It seems not to be possible to prevent users creating
> tables in wrong databases.
>
> I have followed the development of postgresql and read some mails in
> the mailinglist. There was a discussion about 'Granting Permissions to
> User To Access Database', but this was in january 2001 and it seems,
> that nothing has happend.
>
> I would like to be able to set 'revoke all on database from username'.
> Am I the only one, who needs this?
>
> In mysql there are chances to set permissions on database. It is the
> only feature, wich I found until now, which mysql does better than
> postgresql.
>
>
> Tommi Mäkitalo
>
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> TIP 6: Have you searched our list archives?
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> http://archives.postgresql.org
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>
Have you looked at pg_hba.conf at all?
There you can setup which user, from which machine, conect to which
database.

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