Re: Resetting priveleges on a table

From: Bryan White <bryan(at)arcamax(dot)com>
To: pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Resetting priveleges on a table
Date: 2006-03-14 18:05:31
Message-ID: 441705EB.40607@arcamax.com
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Tom Lane wrote:
> You need to revoke them as that user, likely. REVOKE really means
> "revoke grants I made", not "revoke any grant anybody made".

Ok I tried logging is as that user. Oddly after the revoke then only
grant that disappeared was one I created.

Maybe it has something to do with 'grant option' permissions which seem
to have been created here.

Transscript: (pconner is the obsolet user, bryan is my account)

ec=# \z bulkuploadcfg
Access privileges for database "ec"
Schema | Table | Access privileges
--------+---------------+------------------------------------------------------------------
public | bulkuploadcfg |
{pconner=a*r*w*d*R*x*t*/pconner,=arwdRxt/pconner,=arwdRxt/bryan}
(1 row)

ec=# select current_user;
current_user
--------------
pconner
(1 row)

ec=# revoke all on bulkuploadcfg from public;
REVOKE
ec=# \z bulkuploadcfg
Access privileges for database "ec"
Schema | Table | Access privileges
--------+---------------+---------------------------------------------------
public | bulkuploadcfg | {pconner=a*r*w*d*R*x*t*/pconner,=arwdRxt/pconner}
(1 row)

ec=# revoke all on bulkuploadcfg from pconner;
REVOKE
ec=# \z bulkuploadcfg
Access privileges for database "ec"
Schema | Table | Access privileges
--------+---------------+---------------------------------------------------
public | bulkuploadcfg | {pconner=a*r*w*d*R*x*t*/pconner,=arwdRxt/pconner}
(1 row)

ec=# revoke grant option for all on bulkuploadcfg from pconner;
REVOKE
ec=# \z bulkuploadcfg
Access privileges for database "ec"
Schema | Table | Access privileges
--------+---------------+---------------------------------------------------
public | bulkuploadcfg | {pconner=a*r*w*d*R*x*t*/pconner,=arwdRxt/pconner}
(1 row)

--
Bryan

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