Re: With which user Apache accesses PostgreSQL

On Sun, Mar 04, 2001 at 08:07:20PM -0300, Paulo Parola wrote:
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> My question should be: with which user Apache accesses PostgreSQL? From the
> message issued by PostgreSQL it is user 'apache'.

On most systems it seems to be either wwwrun or nobody by default.

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> Does that mean that *any* tables accessed through the Web should be owned by
> an user named 'apache' created with PostgreSQL program 'createuser'?

No, it just means that you need to grant this user permission to read
data from a table owned by someone else, or write to it if that's
necessary (think about whether to allow that or not; it might be a
security risk) with the grant command:

Command:     GRANT
Description: Grants access privilege to a user, a group or all users
Syntax:
GRANT privilege [, ...] ON object [, ...]
    TO { PUBLIC | GROUP group | username }

e.g.:

grant select on <table> to apache;


Regards, Frank