Thread: Re: [HACKERS] Permissions not working?

Re: [HACKERS] Permissions not working?

From

darcy@druid.net (D'Arcy J.M. Cain)

Date:

13 October 1998, 13:13:10

Thus spake darcy
> >     Here I assume user darcy has usesuper set in pg_shadow. Check
> >     and correct me if I'm wrong. The superuser flag is set if you
> >     allow darcy to create users on createuser time.
>
> Correct again.  I half suspected something like this.  Perhaps the
> prompt in createuser should be changed to reflect that the user is
> being granted full superuser privileges rather than just being able
> to create more users.

Should I send in the (trivial) diffs to effect this change?  I figure
to ask the following.

    "Does user "x" have superuser privileges? (y/n)"

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