Re: Hot to restrict access to subset of data

From: Bruno Wolff III <bruno(at)wolff(dot)to>
To: Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org>
Cc: Andrus <noeetasoftspam(at)online(dot)ee>, pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Hot to restrict access to subset of data
Date: 2005-07-01 16:08:46
Message-ID: 20050701160846.GB19934@wolff.to
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On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 08:46:04 -0600,
Michael Fuhr <mike(at)fuhr(dot)org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 01:56:41PM +0300, Andrus wrote:
>
> > 2. Postgres should allow access from my application only. Is it possible to
> > use authentication method which allows access from my application only ?
>
> You could have the application connect to the database as a particular
> user and grant permissions on the table only to that user.

Note, that will not put much of a hurdle in front of people who are running
the application on a machine they have physical access to. So that may
not be an acceptible solution for you.

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