On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 09:18, Tino Wildenhain wrote:
> Am Dienstag, den 17.05.2005, 08:58 -0500 schrieb Scott Marlowe:
> > On Tue, 2005-05-17 at 04:52, Richard Huxton wrote:
> > > Margus Roo wrote:
> > > >
> > > > What I must change that non root user will see only own databases?
> > >
> > > You can't at the moment. There has been some discussion about this, but
> > > at present read access to the system catalogues is available to everyone.
> > >
> > > That doesn't mean they can connect to the database (that's controlled by
> > > your pg_hba.conf file). It does mean you can see what databases are
> > > available though.
> >
> > Everyone realizes that even Oracle doesn't provide this functionality,
> > right?
> >
> And you can get close to that if you carefully moc around with
> the system tables and views and their permissions.
> But if you do it wrong - restore is your friend :-)
All for a feature of questionable value.
Better to worry about the real security than worry about such things I
think.
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