Re: [HACKERS] Permissions not working?

From: darcy(at)druid(dot)net (D'Arcy J(dot)M(dot) Cain)
To: darcy(at)druid(dot)net (darcy)
Cc: jwieck(at)debis(dot)com, pgsql-hackers(at)postgreSQL(dot)org
Subject: Re: [HACKERS] Permissions not working?
Date: 1998-10-13 17:13:02
Message-ID: m0zT80M-0000emC@druid.net
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Thus spake darcy
> > Here I assume user darcy has usesuper set in pg_shadow. Check
> > and correct me if I'm wrong. The superuser flag is set if you
> > allow darcy to create users on createuser time.
>
> Correct again. I half suspected something like this. Perhaps the
> prompt in createuser should be changed to reflect that the user is
> being granted full superuser privileges rather than just being able
> to create more users.

Should I send in the (trivial) diffs to effect this change? I figure
to ask the following.

"Does user "x" have superuser privileges? (y/n)"

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