Re: pg_user

rfc 1925 (see http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1925.html ) states:

"With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine. However, this is not
necessarily a good idea. It is hard to be sure where they are going to
land, and it could be dangerous sitting under them as they fly overhead."

You can call it security if you like, but I call it trying to make a pig
fly.

If you don't want your users to know about each other then put them on
different clusters. Or if they need access to the same data then mediate
access via a middle layer at the server end instead of allowing direct
access to the database(s) - three layer models are very common for this
and other reasons.

cheers

andrew

ivan wrote:

>you can also patch your kernel and when you write cat /etc/passwd system
>give you only your line , whitout any others users, so exacly what you
>need ,
>in pgsql i think that users dont need to know about others , and also
>them
>databases, i call it security :)
>
>On Mon, 27 Oct 2003, Jan Wieck wrote:
>
>
>
>>ivan wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>>hi
>>>
>>>can we change initdb when view pg_user is createing to :
>>>
>>>CREATE VIEW pg_user AS \
>>> SELECT \
>>> usename, \
>>> usesysid, \
>>> usecreatedb, \
>>> usesuper, \
>>> usecatupd, \
>>> '********'::text as passwd, \
>>> valuntil, \
>>> useconfig \
>>> FROM pg_shadow WHERE usename = SESSION_USER;
>>>
>>>
>>No, at least not without a complete proposal how to retain the current
>>behaviour of pg_tables, pg_views, psql's \d and other places that rely
>>on pg_user being able to display all users.
>>
>>It's the same thing with your /etc/passwd. chmod o-rwx /etc/passwd will
>>hide the usernames but break many utilities. If you don't want someone
>>to know all the logins, don't give him one.
>>
>>
>>Jan
>>
>>--
>>#======================================================================#
>># It's easier to get forgiveness for being wrong than for being right. #
>># Let's break this rule - forgive me. #
>>#================================================== JanWieck(at)Yahoo(dot)com #
>>
>>
>>
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