Re: REVOKE CONNECT doesn't work in 8.3.5 - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Zoltan Boszormenyi
Subject Re: REVOKE CONNECT doesn't work in 8.3.5
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Msg-id 494BADEF.9080108@cybertec.at
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In response to Re: REVOKE CONNECT doesn't work in 8.3.5  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane írta:
> Zoltan Boszormenyi <zb@cybertec.at> writes:
>
>> I have "trust" entries in pg_hba.conf because my machine is closed.
>> I added some PG users, and one of them was used in:
>>
>
>
>> REVOKE CONNECT ON DATABASE zozo FROM hs;
>>
>
>
>> However, user "hs" can happily connect to database "zozo"
>> despite the REVOKE.
>>
>
> Unless you had previously done a specific GRANT CONNECT TO hs,
> the above command doesn't do a darn thing.  The privilege that
> actually exists by default is a grant of connect to PUBLIC.
> What you need to do is REVOKE FROM PUBLIC, and then GRANT to
> whichever users/groups you want to allow to connect.
>
>             regards, tom lane
>

Thanks very much for the clarification. The documentation
doesn't spell it out as clearly. Another possibility is that
I can't read and interpret correctly. :-)

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