Re: Permissions not working

scott.marlowe wrote:

>On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Pallav Kalva wrote:
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>>Hi ,
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>>    I am having some problems with setting up permissions in Postgres. I 
>>have a database for ex: 'ups' and it was owned previously by 
>>'postgres(superuser)' but now i have changed the ownership to new user 
>>'ups' all the tables are owned by these user 'ups'. This database doesnt 
>>have any schemas except for 'Public'. I have created another user lets 
>>say 'test' and i didnt give 'test' user any permissions to access the 
>>tables owned by 'ups' but still when i login to 'ups' database as  psql 
>>ups  test and run a select on the  tables owned by 'ups' database  it 
>>goes through.
>>   I dont want  user 'test' to access any tables from the 'ups' 
>>database, i tried revoking permissions it still doesnt work. Can anyone 
>>tell me what is wrong here ?
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>Log in as the superuser (usually postgres) and see what you get from this 
>query:
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>select usesuper from pg_shadow where usename='test';
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>if usesuper is t, then test is a superuser and can do anything he wants.  
>You need to issue the command:
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>alter user test with nocreateuser;
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>If that isn't the problem, let us know.
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Thanks! for the quick reply, I ran the above query and it is 'f' for the 
'test' user, 'test' is not a super user.