| From: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> |
| Cc: | Mark Dilger <mark(dot)dilger(at)enterprisedb(dot)com>, Noah Misch <noah(at)leadboat(dot)com>, Jacob Champion <pchampion(at)vmware(dot)com>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, "tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us" <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, "chap(at)anastigmatix(dot)net" <chap(at)anastigmatix(dot)net>, torikoshia <torikoshia(at)oss(dot)nttdata(dot)com> |
| Subject: | Re: Delegating superuser tasks to new security roles (Was: Granting control of SUSET gucs to non-superusers) |
| Date: | 2021-07-26 20:13:37 |
| Message-ID: | CA+TgmoaGoetjBvOehXvOGua6wK7D_RB7M=+SJvYyWa+uWFxRcA@mail.gmail.com |
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On Mon, Jul 26, 2021 at 4:12 PM Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> I think I may not have expressed myself clearly enough here. What I'm
> concerned about is: Alice should not be permitted to preventing Bob
> from doing something which Bob is allowed to do and Alice is not
> allowed to do. If Alice is the administrator of PostgreSQL's XYZ
> subsystem, she can permit Bob from using it if she wishes. But if Bob
argh, typo. I meant prevent, not permit.
> is an administrator of XYZ and Alice is not, there shouldn't be a way
> for Alice to obstruct Bob's access to that system.
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Robert Haas
EDB: http://www.enterprisedb.com
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