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To: Tom Lane <[email protected]>
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Subject: Re: prevent users from SELECT-ing from pg_roles/pg_database
Date: Mon, 27 May 2024 09:33:51 +0200 (CEST)
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På fredag 24. mai 2024 kl. 19:02:13, skrev Tom Lane <[email protected]
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Andreas Joseph Krogh <[email protected]> writes:
> Hi, is there a way to prevent a user/role from SELECT-ing from certain
> system-tables?
> I'd like the contents of pg_{user,roles,database} to not be visible to all
> users.
As noted, you can in principle revoke the public SELECT grant from
those views/catalogs. However, the system is not designed to hide
such information, which means you'll have (at least) two kinds of
issues to worry about:
1. Queries or tools breaking that you didn't expect to break.
It's hardly uncommon for instance for queries on pg_class to
join to pg_roles to get the owner names for tables.
2. Information leaks. For example, mapping role OID to role name
is trivial with either regrole or pg_get_userbyid(), so it
wouldn't take long to scan the plausible range of role OIDs and
get all their names, even without SQL access to the underlying
catalog.
regards, tom lane
I tried:
REVOKE SELECT ON pg_catalog.pg_database FROM public;
But that doesn't prevent a normal user from querying pg_database it seems…
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