Re: Creating a role with read only privileges but user is allowed to change password

I'm sorry, i forgot to mention my environemnt :
Postgresql version 9.1 on Windows 7 (64 bit) and Debian Linux 6.x (64 bit)

Thanks!
Regards
Ravi.

On Sun, May 11, 2014 at 7:47 PM, Ravi Roy <ravi(dot)aroy(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:

> Hi Guys,
>
> I've created a role named "MyRole" in posgresql with the following :
>
> CREATE ROLE "MyRole" NOSUPERUSER LOGIN NOCREATEDB NOCREATEROLE NOINHERIT
> PASSWORD "MyPassword";
>
> ALTER ROLE "MyRole" set default_transaction_read_only = on;
>
> Because I wanted this role to readonly (can not change anything in DB but
> only view).
>
> But later I realized this role is not even allowed to change his password.
> I've tried several permutations and combinations but it does not work.
>
> Can somebody help as how to allow this role to change his password only
> and everything else is read only? I'm not sure if this is possible.
>
> Thanks.
> Regards
> Ravi.
>
>