Re: How do I create a Backup Operator account ? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Luca Ferrari
Subject Re: How do I create a Backup Operator account ?
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In response to Re: How do I create a Backup Operator account ?  (Ron <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com>)
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On Tue, Jul 30, 2019 at 2:22 PM Ron <ronljohnsonjr@gmail.com> wrote:
> Luca, it is common some large Enterprise environments to have Operations
> staff that can run backups without being able to do anything else.  For
> example, SQL Server has a per-database user mapping named db_backupoperator.


Yes, but I think here we have to solve it with external tools, e.g.,
sudo. I see, however, an hard time configuring an account to execute
only pg_dump without being able to "escape" into the database itself.

Luca



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