Re: [HACKERS] Re: [PORTS] Port Bug Report: Grant select to other user removes owner select permission

On Mon, 16 Mar 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Does anyone want to comment on this?

    Its a bug <- short, Bruce-like comment *grin*


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> >
> > ============================================================================
> >                         POSTGRESQL BUG REPORT TEMPLATE
> > ============================================================================
> >
> >
> > Your name        : Adam Levine
> > Your email address    : jarreth1@airmail.net
> >
> > Category        : runtime: back-end
> > Severity        : non-critical
> >
> > Summary: Grant select to other user removes owner select permission
> >
> > System Configuration
> > --------------------
> >   Operating System   : Linux 2.0.33 Elf Slackware
> >
> >   PostgreSQL version : 6.3
> >
> >   Compiler used      : gcc 2.7.2
> >
> > Hardware:
> > ---------
> > 486 PCI, 64M ram
> >
> > Versions of other tools:
> > ------------------------
> > gmake 3.74
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Problem Description:
> > --------------------
> > If a user creates a table, and then grants select privs to another user, the owner of the table can no longer
selectwithouth first granting himself select privs. 
> > No other permissions testing was done, fyi.
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Test Case:
> > ----------
> > user1 (in their database) creates table1; user1 selects from table1 (success); user2 selects from table1 (failure);
user1grants select on table1 to user2; user2 selects from table1 (success); user1 selects from table1 (failure); 
> > user1 grants select on table1 to user1; user1 selects from table1 (success);
> >
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> >
> > Solution:
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