Re: Disable or remove 'drop' button on toolbar

Ah yes, indeed.

Counterpoint would be that this is like detonation charges at the base of a bridge and then saying that the police should simply keep people away from the bomb. Why not just remove the explosives from such an easily reached place?

I can see the argument both ways. It definitely would be better access control to give managers/non-developers a role that doesn't allow modification. I'll look into a role. Thanks!

----- Original Message -----
From: "Colin Beckingham" <colbec(at)kingston(dot)net>
To: "Joseph Marlin" <jmarlin(at)saucontech(dot)com>, pgadmin-support(at)postgresql(dot)org
Sent: Friday, October 9, 2015 2:14:43 PM
Subject: Re: [pgadmin-support] Disable or remove 'drop' button on toolbar

On 09/10/15 01:48 PM, Joseph Marlin wrote:
> We give pgadmin3 to some managers and other non-developers to allow them to run reports and scripts that we (development) write for them.
>
> The ease of pressing the 'drop' button on the main toolbar makes me really worried, even with the confirmation dialogue. Even I have accidentally clicked it a few times. I can't imagine why I'd even want such a convenient way to drop our entire production schema.
>
> Is there any way to remove this button from the toolbar, or disable it? I could then go remove it from all the managers' installations (and mine!).
>
> Thanks!
> Joseph Marlin
>
>
>
One way would be to require the users to log in to the database under a
special user/role where the permissions are specially crafted to ensure
that they don't have permission to cause the damage you fear. This puts
the onus on the backend (Postgresql), not the frontend (PgAdmin) You
could argue that this is where the responsibility properly should be
embedded, on the back end.