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Re: REVOKE CONNECT doesn't work in 8.3.5

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Tom Lane írta:
> Zoltan Boszormenyi <zb@xxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>   
>> I have "trust" entries in pg_hba.conf because my machine is closed.
>> I added some PG users, and one of them was used in:
>>     
>
>   
>> REVOKE CONNECT ON DATABASE zozo FROM hs;
>>     
>
>   
>> However, user "hs" can happily connect to database "zozo"
>> despite the REVOKE.
>>     
>
> Unless you had previously done a specific GRANT CONNECT TO hs,
> the above command doesn't do a darn thing.  The privilege that
> actually exists by default is a grant of connect to PUBLIC.
> What you need to do is REVOKE FROM PUBLIC, and then GRANT to
> whichever users/groups you want to allow to connect.
>
> 			regards, tom lane
>   

Thanks very much for the clarification. The documentation
doesn't spell it out as clearly. Another possibility is that
I can't read and interpret correctly. :-)

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Zoltán Böszörményi
Cybertec Schönig & Schönig GmbH
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