Thread: Read-only access to a database

Hi,

I'd like to create a user that has read-only access to
a database.

I've read the docs and fumbled around a bit (even
tried to use phppgadmin) - but nothing works.

"CREATE USER username" is about as far as I've
gotten.  Which other commands would I have to
use to enable read-only access to a database?

Thanks,

Morten

Wouldn't you just set read-only ACLs for that role on all of the objects
in the database in question?

~BAS

On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 17:42 +0100, Morten W. Petersen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'd like to create a user that has read-only access to
> a database.
>
> I've read the docs and fumbled around a bit (even
> tried to use phppgadmin) - but nothing works.
>
> "CREATE USER username" is about as far as I've
> gotten.  Which other commands would I have to
> use to enable read-only access to a database?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Morten
>
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when you create a role, you can specify, nocreate option.  Then when you
grant the tables to this user give only select privilege.

Regards
skarthi


>From: "Brian A. Seklecki" <bseklecki@collaborativefusion.com>
>To: "Morten W. Petersen" <morten@nidelven-it.no>
>CC: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
>Subject: Re: [ADMIN] Read-only access to a database
>Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 13:46:53 -0400
>
>Wouldn't you just set read-only ACLs for that role on all of the objects
>in the database in question?
>
>~BAS
>
>On Wed, 2007-03-21 at 17:42 +0100, Morten W. Petersen wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I'd like to create a user that has read-only access to
> > a database.
> >
> > I've read the docs and fumbled around a bit (even
> > tried to use phppgadmin) - but nothing works.
> >
> > "CREATE USER username" is about as far as I've
> > gotten.  Which other commands would I have to
> > use to enable read-only access to a database?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Morten
> >
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