Do many of you implement fine grained security provisions at the DBMS level using GRANT PRIVILEGE ON object TO user/role? My background with DBMS security is mostly in CODASYL shallow network systems where user level access control to datasets and fields was mainly a matter for the application and / or operating system. Therefor the number of user ids known to the DBMS was minimal. The topic of RDBMS security has arisen in a discussion and, lacking evidence of my own, I am curious to discover just how frequently DBMS userids tied to specific individuals are used in production RDBMS based systems. I am also curious to know how often VIEWS are tied to individual user IDs known to the DBMS rather than to shared user IDs known only to an application through a configuration file. This is not really a PG specific question so if anyone wishes to reply privately rather than to the list that is fine with me. Thanks, -- *** E-Mail is NOT a SECURE channel *** James B. Byrne mailto:ByrneJB@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Harte & Lyne Limited http://www.harte-lyne.ca 9 Brockley Drive vox: +1 905 561 1241 Hamilton, Ontario fax: +1 905 561 0757 Canada L8E 3C3 -- Sent via pgsql-general mailing list (pgsql-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To make changes to your subscription: http://www.postgresql.org/mailpref/pgsql-general
