Thanks to everyone for the ideas, the information you provided me with was much needed. it's much appreciated. C O N F I D E N T I A L I T Y N O T I C E The contents of and attachments to this e-mail are intended for the addressee only, and may contain the confidential information of Argility (Proprietary) Limited and/or its subsidiaries. Any review, use or dissemination thereof by anyone other than the intended addressee is prohibited. If you are not the intended addressee please notify the writer immediately and destroy the e-mail. Argility (Proprietary) Limited and its subsidiaries distance themselves from and accept no liability for unauthorised use of their e-mail facilities or e-mails sent other than strictly for business purposes. -----Original Message----- From: Scott Ribe [mailto:scott_ribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Wednesday, March 14, 2012 5:47 PM To: David Ondrejik Cc: Khangelani Gama; pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Update actions (with user name) inside PostgreSQL DB - any version on postgreSQL On Mar 14, 2012, at 9:28 AM, David Ondrejik wrote: > So there is some trail to track back to the original user. Yes, but once he has root shell, the trail ends there, and impersonation of anyone is once again trivial. Also, sudo su root, does work on some unices, and the option you don't want to advertise is, in my opinion, trivially obvious--but I'll respect the idea and not advertise it. -- Scott Ribe scott_ribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://www.elevated-dev.com/ (303) 722-0567 voice CONFIDENTIALITY NOTICE The contents of and attachments to this e-mail are intended for the addressee only, and may contain the confidential information of Argility (Proprietary) Limited and/or its subsidiaries. Any review, use or dissemination thereof by anyone other than the intended addressee is prohibited. If you are not the intended addressee please notify the writer immediately and destroy the e-mail. Argility (Proprietary) Limited and its subsidiaries distance themselves from and accept no liability for unauthorised use of their e-mail facilities or e-mails sent other than strictly for business purposes. -- Sent via pgsql-admin mailing list (pgsql-admin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-admin
