Re: Bug in user management?

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Hans-Jürgen Schönig <hs(at)cybertec(dot)at>
Cc: pgsql-sql(at)postgresql(dot)org
Subject: Re: Bug in user management?
Date: 2001-04-13 23:10:30
Message-ID: 8616.987203430@sss.pgh.pa.us
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=?iso-8859-1?Q?Hans=2DJ=FCrgen=20Sch=F6nig?= <hs(at)cybertec(dot)at> writes:
> I have created a user called epi who is not allowed to create database
> but allowed to create users.

The "CREATEUSER" option is rather badly mislabeled: the privilege it
actually grants is superuser status. You are laboring under a severe
misapprehension if you think that epi has ANY restrictions on what he
can do ...

regards, tom lane

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