Thread: how to allow a sysid to be a superuser?
Hi:
PG 8.3.4 on Linux.
A DB was created with a privileged account which has limited access. I want a specific user (sysuid) to have “all” provs on this DB. In fact, I want this user to have “all” on all the dbs served by the PG instance. Is there a way to do this such that when psql is invoked in a session of that user, he/she automatically has “all” (wothoug havng to enter “-user theuid”)?
Thanks
-dave
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Gauthier, Dave <dave.gauthier@intel.com> wrote: > PG 8.3.4 on Linux. > > A DB was created with a privileged account which has limited access. I want > a specific user (sysuid) to have “all” provs on this DB. In fact, I want > this user to have “all” on all the dbs served by the PG instance. Is there > a way to do this such that when psql is invoked in a session of that user, > he/she automatically has “all” (wothoug havng to enter “-user theuid”)? Make them a superuser. first log into psql as a superuser and issue this command: alter user username superuser; tada! they're now large and in charge of the pgsql instance and all its databases.
It comes back... role "joetheplumber" does not exist The user is a sys uid on linux. -----Original Message----- From: Scott Marlowe [mailto:scott.marlowe@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 2009 1:26 PM To: Gauthier, Dave Cc: pgsql-general Subject: Re: [GENERAL] how to allow a sysid to be a superuser? On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 9:11 AM, Gauthier, Dave <dave.gauthier@intel.com> wrote: > PG 8.3.4 on Linux. > > A DB was created with a privileged account which has limited access. I want > a specific user (sysuid) to have "all" provs on this DB. In fact, I want > this user to have "all" on all the dbs served by the PG instance. Is there > a way to do this such that when psql is invoked in a session of that user, > he/she automatically has "all" (wothoug havng to enter "-user theuid")? Make them a superuser. first log into psql as a superuser and issue this command: alter user username superuser; tada! they're now large and in charge of the pgsql instance and all its databases.
On Tue, Dec 8, 2009 at 1:44 PM, Gauthier, Dave <dave.gauthier@intel.com> wrote: > It comes back... > > role "joetheplumber" does not exist > > The user is a sys uid on linux. You're confusing linux users with postgresql users. They aren't mapped one to the other. First you need to create a pgsql role / user: psql postgres create user joetheplumber superuser; then you'll have the account for joetheplumber as a superuser.