Re: Setting Permissions for web viewing - Mailing list pgsql-novice

From D. Duccini
Subject Re: Setting Permissions for web viewing
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Msg-id Pine.GSO.4.03.10010191229130.20213-100000@ra.bpsi.net
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In response to Setting Permissions for web viewing  ("Kevin Leclaire" <kevin@virtualnav.com>)
Responses RE: Setting Permissions for web viewing  ("k" <kraznus@yahoo.com>)
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the problem isn't the database, its the user the webserver is running as

you can solve this by using chown and chmod u+s to make the script
execute as a known user to the database

the alernate is to pass in a fully qualified connect string specifying
user/database

-duck

On Thu, 19 Oct 2000, Kevin Leclaire wrote:

> What's the cleanest way to set permissions in postgres so that a web
> application can properly view and query a back-end database, but not modify?
>
> I have tried modifying pg_hba.conf, and got it to do a pg_connect()
> successfully, however, the subsequent pg_Exex() call failed with the
> following browser error: "Warning: PostgreSQL query failed: ERROR:
> table_name: Permission denied..."
>
> Thanks!
>
> Kevin
>


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