Re: Open 7.3 items

On Wednesday 14 August 2002 03:29 pm, Vince Vielhaber wrote:
> Hate to complicate things more, but back to a global username, say
> you have user "lowen" that should have access to all databases. What
> happens if there's already a lowen(at)somedb that's an unprivileged user.
> Assuming lowen is a db superuser, what happens in somedb? If there's
> a global user "lowen" and you try to create a lowen(at)somedb later, will
> it be allowed?

If the user 'lowen' is then expanded to 'lowen(at)template1' it would be stored
that way -- and lowen(at)template1 is different from lowen(at)pari, for instance.
The lowen(at)template1 user could be a superuser and lowen(at)pari might not -- but
they become distinct users. Although I do understand the difficulty if the
FQDU isn't stored in full in the appropriate places. So I guess the solution
is that wherever a user name is to be stored, the fully qualified form must
be used and checked against, with @template1 being a 'this user is
everywhere' shorthand.

But maybe I'm just misunderstanding the implementation.
--
Lamar Owen
WGCR Internet Radio
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