Re: Regarding access to a user

From: "Kevin Grittner" <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>
To: "pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-admin(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "Shashwat_Nigam" <Shashwat_Nigam(at)satyam(dot)com>
Cc: "pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Regarding access to a user
Date: 2008-08-20 13:10:59
Message-ID: 48ABD192.EE98.0025.0@wicourts.gov
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>>> Shashwat_Nigam <Shashwat_Nigam(at)satyam(dot)com> wrote:

> Now what I want is to set privilege that whenever the user log in as
Us
> he can only see database Y, none other than that. The user Us could
have all
> rights for database Y but can't go for any other database (X or Z).

The first thing you need to do is configure "host based
authentication":

http://www.postgresql.org/docs/8.3/interactive/auth-pg-hba-conf.html

Among other things, this allows you to restrict which users can
connect to which databases.

-Kevin

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