Re: postgres db permissions - Mailing list pgsql-general
Yes. It is NEVER a good idea to use GRANT ALL on objects for users. Some people use that as a short cut for allowing access to schemas and tables, but in essence, it allows the users to do much more, and that is BAD!
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/interactive/sql-grant.html
http://www.postgresql.org/docs/9.3/interactive/sql-grant.html
On Tue, Jun 2, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Steve Pribyl <Steve.Pribyl@akunacapital.com> wrote:
They all look like this.
CREATE ROLE dbA
NOSUPERUSER INHERIT NOCREATEDB NOCREATEROLE NOREPLICATION;
Steve Pribyl
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On 06/02/2015 10:50 AM, Steve Pribyl wrote:
> Josh,
>
> Via psql:
> CREATE ROLE bob LOGIN
> NOSUPERUSER INHERIT NOCREATEDB NOCREATEROLE NOREPLICATION;
> GRANT dbA TO bob;
> GRANT dbA_ro TO bob;
> GRANT dbB TO bob;
> GRANT dbB_ro TO bob;
>
> dbA, dbA_ro, dbB, and dbB_ro are roles.
The burning question would be, how where they created?
>
> I have not created any database yet or assigned permissions to the roles.
>
> Steve Pribyl
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> On 06/02/2015 10:36 AM, Steve Pribyl wrote:
>>
>> Good Afternoon,
>>
>> Built a fresh 9.3. postgres server and added some users and noticed that any user can create tables in any database including the postgres database by default.
>>
>> Have I missed some step in securing the default install?
>
> How exactly did you add the users?
>
> JD
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