Re: Strange Grant behavior in postgres 8.3

Sorry for some confusion. I re-created the whole thing again with
fresh users and a fresh database:

(1) Create a new user and a new db, also create a table 'test' inside
with user 'foo'

$> createuser -U postgres -P -E foo
$> createdb -U postgres -O foo -E utf8 foo_test

(2) create a second user

$> createuser -U postgres -P -E bar

just a check for db ownership

=> \l
List of databases
Name | Owner | Encoding
----------------------+--------------+----------
foo_test | foo | UTF8

(3) check the database rights (with user postgres)
# select * from pg_database where datname = 'foo_test';
datname | datdba | encoding | datistemplate | datallowconn |
datconnlimit | datlastsysoid | datfrozenxid | dattablespace |
datconfig | datacl
----------+--------+----------+---------------+--------------+--------------+---------------+--------------+---------------+-----------+--------
foo_test | 72427 | 6 | f | t |
-1 | 11510 | 379 | 1663 | |
(1 row)

(4) login as user bar and get correct error

=> select * from test;
ERROR: permission denied for relation test;

(5) give user 'bar' full rights to the database 'foo_test' as logged
in with user 'postgres'

# grant all on database foo_test to bar;

(6) check rights again

datname | datdba | encoding | datistemplate | datallowconn |
datconnlimit | datlastsysoid | datfrozenxid | dattablespace |
datconfig | datacl
----------+--------+----------+---------------+--------------+--------------+---------------+--------------+---------------+-----------+-----------------------------------
foo_test | 72427 | 6 | f | t |
-1 | 11510 | 379 | 1663 | |
{=Tc/foo,foo=CTc/foo,bar=CTc/foo}

(7) login again with 'bar' user

=> select * from test;
ERROR: permission denied for relation test

still cannot select

rights for the table inside (the same for postgres, foo or bar user):

# \z
Access privileges for database "foo_test"
Schema | Name | Type | Access privileges
--------+------+-------+-------------------
public | test | table |

So what do I do wrong? Even if I do the GRANT command as user 'foo'
who is the database owner, I still cannot select with the user 'bar'.
It only works if I set GRANT rights for the TABLE itself:

as user 'foo' logged in
=> grant all on table test to bar;

=> \z
Access privileges for database "foo_test"
Schema | Name | Type | Access privileges
--------+------+-------+-------------------
public | test | table | {foo=arwdxt/foo,bar=arwdxt/foo}

and then login again with user 'bar'

=> select * from test;
test
------
foo
(1 row)

I am seriously confused and ask myself what I do wrong

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 21:06, Albe Laurenz <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at> wrote:
> Schwaighofer Clemens wrote:
>> Version:
>> PostgreSQL 8.3.5 on i486-pc-linux-gnu, compiled by GCC gcc-4.3.real(Debian 4.3.2-1) 4.3.2
>>
>> I have a DB "foo" created and owned by postgres.
>>
>> No I created another role called "bar" and with the user postgres in
>> the db foo I did:
>>
>> #> grant all on foo to bar;
>
> That statement is wrong.
> It should be:
>
> GRANT ALL ON DATABASE foo TO bar;
>
>> when I select from pg_database I can see the correct line
>>
>> bar=CTc/postgres for the db foo
>>
>> I login with user bar to foo
>>
>> $ psql -U bar -h localhost foo
>>
>> but I cannot select anything from any table.
>
> That is ok, because you have no permissions on schemata and tables.
>
>> Now the strange part.
>>
>> I grant to one table only a all privileges
>> #> grant all on table nodes to bar
>>
>> $> \z nodes
>> Schema | Name | Type | Access privileges
>> --------+-------+-------+---------------------------------------------------
>> public | nodes | table | {postgres=arwdxt/postgres,foo=arwdxt/postgres}
>
> That is very strange, because the user in your example is "bar" and not "foo".
>
>> and then the user bar could read from all tables.
>
> That is unlikely.
>
>> What am I doing wrong? Or where can I look if I missed something
>
> It seems that some of your statements or results are different
> from what actually happened.
>
> Try to reproduce it with a new clean database, and then copy and
> paste what you did and what results you got so that we can reproduce
> the behaviour.
>
> Yours,
> Laurenz Albe
>

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