Re: pgsql: Revoke PUBLIC CREATE from public schema, now owned by pg_databas
Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
From: Alvaro Herrera <alvherre@alvh.no-ip.org>
To: Noah Misch <noah@leadboat.com>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Robert Haas <robertmhaas@gmail.com>, "pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org" <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2022-12-01T11:16:39Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
On 2022-Dec-01, Noah Misch wrote: > This is free from the problem found in ddl-create-public-reorg-really.patch. > However, the word "other" doesn't belong there. (The per-user schemas should > not have public CREATE privilege.) I would also move that same sentence up > front, like this: > > Constrain ordinary users to user-private schemas. To implement this > pattern, first ensure that no schemas have public CREATE privileges. > Then, for every user needing to create non-temporary objects, create a > schema with the same name as that user. (Recall that the default search > path starts with $user, which resolves to the user name. Therefore, if > each user has a separate schema, they access their own schemas by > default.) This pattern is a secure schema usage pattern unless an > untrusted user is the database owner or holds the CREATEROLE privilege, in > which case no secure schema usage pattern exists. +1 LGTM -- Álvaro Herrera PostgreSQL Developer — https://www.EnterpriseDB.com/
Commits
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Doc: word-smith the discussion of secure schema usage patterns.
- ef2d7c6f0ba9 16.0 landed
- afa4a4f764cc 15.2 landed
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Fix the public schema's permissions in a separate test script.
- 944dc45d1b63 15.0 landed
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Revoke PUBLIC CREATE from public schema, now owned by pg_database_owner.
- b073c3ccd06e 15.0 cited