Re: user privileges

From: Laurenz Albe <laurenz(dot)albe(at)cybertec(dot)at>
To: Atul Kumar <akumar14871(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: user privileges
Date: 2021-06-21 14:27:52
Message-ID: 3b2aa71592fc0de2bacda3373542976fd5ba61cf.camel@cybertec.at
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On Mon, 2021-06-21 at 16:10 +0530, Atul Kumar wrote:
> My question can be silly but I need to ask that if a user is created
> without login privilege then what is the use of below command why
> don't postgres prompt error on it
>
> CREATE ROLE nolog_user WITH PASSWORD 'pass1';
>
> as the user is created with login privileges then what is the use such user ?

The role can be the owner of objects, or it can have members that
inherit privileges.

But setting a password is pointless on a role that cannot login.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe
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