Re: *** Newbie Question About PostgreSQL ***

2001-05-30 Thread will trillich
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 07:49:46PM -0400, Arcadio A. Sincero Jr. wrote: > Hello list, wrong list. try pgsql-general@postgresql.org instead. > I'd like to set up Postgresql so that users can have "read-only" access to a > database. Right now, I only know how to set it so a user can have all or >

Re: *** Newbie Question About PostgreSQL ***

2001-05-29 Thread Kevin Ross
> I'd like to set up Postgresql so that users can have "read-only" access to a > database. To keep users from creating new tables, how about altering the permissions on the pg_class system table? This table is part of the system catalog, it keeps a list of all tables. If a user doesn't have pe

Re: *** Newbie Question About PostgreSQL ***

2001-05-29 Thread Eric G. Miller
On Tue, May 29, 2001 at 08:12:57PM -0400, Arcadio A. Sincero Jr. wrote: > But that only defines permissions on the individual tables of the database. > I'm trying to set permissions on the database itself. Specifically I'm > trying to prevent users from being able to do CREATE TABLE but still be a

Re: *** Newbie Question About PostgreSQL ***

2001-05-29 Thread Arcadio A. Sincero Jr.
m: "Andrew Perrin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Arcadio A. Sincero Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2001 8:58 PM Subject: Re: *** Newbie Question About PostgreSQL *** > You should look through the PostgreSQL documentation. But basically, you >

Re: *** Newbie Question About PostgreSQL ***

2001-05-29 Thread Andrew Perrin
You should look through the PostgreSQL documentation. But basically, you manage users using SQL: CREATE USER foo WITH PASSWORD bar; GRANT READ ON table TO foo; REVOKE DELETE ON table FROM foo; -- Andrew J Perrin - [EMAIL PROTECTE

*** Newbie Question About PostgreSQL ***

2001-05-29 Thread Arcadio A. Sincero Jr.
Hello list, I'd like to set up Postgresql so that users can have "read-only" access to a database. Right now, I only know how to set it so a user can have all or nothing access by adding something like the following in the pg_hba.conf file: localmydbcryptusers.mydb And put the names