From: | Peter Eisentraut <peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net> |
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To: | Gunnar Rønning <gunnar(at)polygnosis(dot)com> |
Cc: | Jean-Francois Leveque <leveque(at)webmails(dot)com>, <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org> |
Subject: | Re: Database Users Management and Privileges |
Date: | 2001-07-06 15:41:23 |
Message-ID: | Pine.LNX.4.30.0107061735290.679-100000@peter.localdomain |
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Gunnar Rønning writes:
> Better user management and policy delegations would be important
> postgresql to succeed in enterprise environments.
Keeping compatibility is also important.
> Maybe one should
> start distinguishing logins from users like Sybase does. Logins are global
> to all databases, and you can create a user for a given database and assign
> it to a login.
That doesn't strike me as terribly better. Operating system
administrators tend to unify user management across the whole network.
You're essentially suggesting making separate users per file system.
Ugh.
> It would also be nice to be able to assign users to
> groups(which in turn define access rights within the database).
That would indeed be nice. That's why we have already implemented it.
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Peter Eisentraut peter_e(at)gmx(dot)net http://funkturm.homeip.net/~peter
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