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current_user inside SECURITY DEFINER function?

From
Richard Hayward
Date:
Is there any way to get the name of the current user inside a PL/pgSQL
function that is defined with security definer?

current_user gives the name of the user who created the function.

The reason I want this is that I intend to use functions to maintain
security, like this:

userA has only select permission on myTable.

The only way userA can insert to myTable is by providing parameters
for and executing myFunction.

myFunction was created by user postgres who does have insert
permission on myTable. However the code inside myFunction needs to do
different things, depending on who called it.

Is there any way of getting the user?

regards
Richard

Re: current_user inside SECURITY DEFINER function?

From
Stephan Szabo
Date:
On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Richard Hayward wrote:

> Is there any way to get the name of the current user inside a PL/pgSQL
> function that is defined with security definer?

IIRC, SESSION_USER should give the original user.

Re: current_user inside SECURITY DEFINER function?

From
Stephen Frost
Date:
* Richard Hayward (richard@tortoise.demon.co.uk) wrote:
> Is there any way of getting the user?

You might try session_user.  8.1 will hopefully clean this up some.

    Thanks,

        Stephen
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Re: current_user inside SECURITY DEFINER function?

From
Adam Witney
Date:
I think you want to use session_user instead

Adam


> Is there any way to get the name of the current user inside a PL/pgSQL
> function that is defined with security definer?
>
> current_user gives the name of the user who created the function.
>
> The reason I want this is that I intend to use functions to maintain
> security, like this:
>
> userA has only select permission on myTable.
>
> The only way userA can insert to myTable is by providing parameters
> for and executing myFunction.
>
> myFunction was created by user postgres who does have insert
> permission on myTable. However the code inside myFunction needs to do
> different things, depending on who called it.
>
> Is there any way of getting the user?
>
> regards
> Richard
>
>
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Re: current_user inside SECURITY DEFINER function?

From
Peter Eisentraut
Date:
Stephen Frost wrote:
> * Richard Hayward (richard@tortoise.demon.co.uk) wrote:
> > Is there any way of getting the user?
>
> You might try session_user.  8.1 will hopefully clean this up some.

Why would it?  This is SQL standard behavior that should not be changed.

--
Peter Eisentraut
http://developer.postgresql.org/~petere/

Re: current_user inside SECURITY DEFINER function?

From
Stephen Frost
Date:
* Peter Eisentraut (peter_e@gmx.net) wrote:
> Stephen Frost wrote:
> > * Richard Hayward (richard@tortoise.demon.co.uk) wrote:
> > > Is there any way of getting the user?
> >
> > You might try session_user.  8.1 will hopefully clean this up some.
>
> Why would it?  This is SQL standard behavior that should not be changed.

It'll match the SQL spec, I'm not sure it does now, that was more of my
point than anything else. :)

    Stephen
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Re: current_user inside SECURITY DEFINER function?

From
Richard Hayward
Date:
On Wed, 6 Jul 2005 06:33:58 -0700 (PDT), sszabo@megazone.bigpanda.com
(Stephan Szabo) wrote:


>SESSION_USER should give the original user.

Thanks all, that does what I want.

regards
Richard