On Mon, 15 Oct 2001, Chris Cameron wrote:

> I'm having a bit of a problem managing users.
> 
> I have a database owned by user joe. Joe has a bunch of tables in this 
> database and is allowed to create databases but not users. All the 
> tables are owned by joe.
> If I create another user without any privledges at all, that user is 
> able to (on my system) create tables in any existing databases. 
> Including joes database.
> 
> Do I have something improperly configured, or is this just the way 
> Postgres works? I realize I have little details, but I'm not entirely 
> sure whats causing this so I don't know what details to include.

Right now, if a user can connect to a database, they can create objects.
You can make it impossible for the user to connect to the database by
using the pg_hba.conf to disallow the connections, but that's as far
as it goes.





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