Re: [GENERAL] Role Membership

2010-12-20 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Monday 20 December 2010 11:46:29 am Carlos Mennens wrote: > On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote: > > No user, no group, they're al roles.  Roles are both / either. > > Ah now I understand. Thank you! > > > You grant them that: > > > > grant rolename to username; > > > > Then y

Re: [GENERAL] Role Membership

2010-12-20 Thread Carlos Mennens
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote: > No user, no group, they're al roles.  Roles are both / either. Ah now I understand. Thank you! > You grant them that: > > grant rolename to username; > > Then you only ever have to grant / revoke a role to change > permissions, no need to d

Re: [GENERAL] Role Membership

2010-12-20 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Carlos Mennens wrote: > On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Scott Marlowe > wrote: >> Odd, mine does.  Got a complete example of creating a role and not seeing it? >> >> Here's mine: >> smarlowe=# create role stans; >> CREATE ROLE >> smarlowe=# \dg >>            L

Re: [GENERAL] Role Membership

2010-12-20 Thread Adrian Klaver
On 12/20/2010 08:12 AM, Carlos Mennens wrote: On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Adrian Klaver wrote: Roles = users/groups. In older versions there where users and groups, that has been consolidated into the concept of a role. If it makes it easier I use the concept of roles with login privilege

Re: [GENERAL] Role Membership

2010-12-20 Thread Carlos Mennens
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote: > Odd, mine does.  Got a complete example of creating a role and not seeing it? > > Here's mine: > smarlowe=# create role stans; > CREATE ROLE > smarlowe=# \dg >            List of roles >  Role name |  Attributes  | Member of > ---+--

Re: [GENERAL] Role Membership

2010-12-20 Thread Scott Marlowe
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 9:12 AM, Carlos Mennens wrote: > So if I wanted to create a group / role for accounting, would I simply just > do: > > CREATE ROLE accounting; > > My question is I can't find: > > 1. How to view all previously created roles on my database. '\dg' > doesn't show me the new r

Re: [GENERAL] Role Membership

2010-12-20 Thread Carlos Mennens
On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 10:41 AM, Adrian Klaver wrote: > Roles = users/groups. In older versions there where users and groups, that has > been consolidated into the concept of a role. If it makes it easier I use the > concept of roles with login privileges as a users and roles without as groups.

Re: [GENERAL] Role Membership

2010-12-20 Thread Adrian Klaver
On Monday 20 December 2010 7:27:19 am Carlos Mennens wrote: > I was looking at my users and realized none of my users are members of > a specific group or role. Not sure if there's a difference between the > two (role / group) in PostgreSQL, is there? > > easports=# \du >Lis

[GENERAL] Role Membership

2010-12-20 Thread Carlos Mennens
I was looking at my users and realized none of my users are members of a specific group or role. Not sure if there's a difference between the two (role / group) in PostgreSQL, is there? easports=# \du List of roles Role name |Attributes | Member of -