| From: | Michael Paquier <michael(dot)paquier(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> |
| Cc: | pgsql-committers(at)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: pgsql: Use GRANT system to manage access to sensitive functions |
| Date: | 2016-04-07 01:59:43 |
| Message-ID: | CAB7nPqTN1aPjV_yGE=rtBoSNEszeh9__vOwdV7RLtFb0BPZWWA@mail.gmail.com |
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On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 10:45 AM, Stephen Frost <sfrost(at)snowman(dot)net> wrote:
> Use GRANT system to manage access to sensitive functions
>
> Now that pg_dump will properly dump out any ACL changes made to
> functions which exist in pg_catalog, switch to using the GRANT system
> to manage access to those functions.
>
> This means removing 'if (!superuser()) ereport()' checks from the
> functions themselves and then REVOKEing EXECUTE right from 'public' for
> these functions in system_views.sql.
+1.
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Michael
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