Re: User with "almost" superuser privileges

From: Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>
To: Daniel Gomez Blanco <nanodgb(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Luca Ferrari <fluca1978(at)infinito(dot)it>, pgsql-novice(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: User with "almost" superuser privileges
Date: 2013-08-09 16:58:09
Message-ID: 20130809165809.GB3341@momjian.us
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On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 03:06:07PM +0200, Daniel Gomez Blanco wrote:
> Hi Luca,
>
> Thanks for the list, it actually helped a lot! :) I just wished there was like
> a summary of what a superuser can do...

The larger problem is that if your super-user can do one of a handful of
things, they can then do the others by just using those few permissions.
It is like asking what 'root' can do on a Unix system.

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