Re: Privileges on public schema can't be revoked?

From: Jim Nasby <Jim(dot)Nasby(at)BlueTreble(dot)com>
To: Greg Fodor <gfodor(at)gmail(dot)com>, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
Cc: <pgsql-general(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Privileges on public schema can't be revoked?
Date: 2016-09-07 22:55:47
Message-ID: 7b9bbe51-6b6d-dd34-77be-a4043c36d323@BlueTreble.com
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On 9/6/16 3:16 PM, Greg Fodor wrote:
> It seems that functionality that lets a superuser quickly audit the
> privileges for a user (including those granted via PUBLIC) would be
> really helpful for diagnosing cases where that user can do something
> they shouldn't be allowed to.

That's actually relatively easy to do today; see the has_*_privilege()
functions.

You might also find http://pgxn.org/dist/pg_acl useful.
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