From: Craig Ringer <ringerc@ringerc.id.au>
To: Rainer Leo <leo@workfile.de>
Cc: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: Best procedure for restricted access
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2011 23:26:58 +0800
Message-ID: <4E6E24C2.5050901@ringerc.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <746856965.20110912151609@workfile.de>
References: <746856965.20110912151609@workfile.de>
On 12/09/2011 9:16 PM, Rainer Leo wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have been asked to configure a database role
> to be used for ODBC access.
>
> So far I have done this:
>
> CREATE ROLE odbc_user LOGIN
> ENCRYPTED PASSWORD 'bar'
> NOSUPERUSER INHERIT NOCREATEDB NOCREATEROLE;
>
> REVOKE ALL ON DATABASE foo FROM odbc_user;
> REVOKE CREATE ON SCHEMA public FROM public;
> GRANT SELECT ON v_sales TO odbc_user;
>
> When I try:
>
> foo-> SELECT * FROM customers;
> access is denied as expected
>
> foo->\d baz
> I see table definitions.
You'd have to mess with permissions on the pg_catalog tables and the
INFORMATION_SCHEMA views. This may have unexpected side-effects or cause
some clients that expect to be able to use those schema to get metadata
to cease functioning correctly.
I don't think denying access to table definitions is part of the
security model's goals at the moment; it's about limiting access to
_data_ not DDL or definitions. You'll note that function sources are
also available via pg_catalog, though it seems to be reasonably safe
(from what I hear, having not tested it) to change permissions to deny
access to those.
--
Craig Ringer
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