Re: [HACKERS] ACL's - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From jwieck@debis.com (Jan Wieck)
Subject Re: [HACKERS] ACL's
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Msg-id m0zWGRl-000EBPC@orion.SAPserv.Hamburg.dsh.de
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In response to Re: [HACKERS] ACL's  (Bruce Momjian <maillist@candle.pha.pa.us>)
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>
> [Charset iso-8859-1 unsupported, filtering to ASCII...]
> > I think it should stay that way - being able to deny oneself a privilege is a
> > good way to make sure that one does what one does consciously. I know the
> > root password on many machines, but I still do almost everything through a
> > normal account - that way I have to make a conscious decison to become
> > dangerous :-) and if I accidentaly try to do something dangerous as an
> > ordinary user a) it doesn't happen and b) I'm reminded how dangerous it is.
> > I still have the ability to do dangerous things, I just have to take an extra
> > step.
>
> What do other DB's do.  I assume they give the owner permission.

    Hmmm... so it's a TODO for 6.5 after beeing discussed.


Jan

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