Re: [HACKERS] Re: [PORTS] Port Bug Report: Grant select to other user removes owner select permission

On Mon, 16 Mar 1998, Bruce Momjian wrote:

> Does anyone want to comment on this?

	Its a bug <- short, Bruce-like comment *grin*


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> > 
> > ============================================================================
> >                         POSTGRESQL BUG REPORT TEMPLATE
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> > 
> > 
> > Your name		: Adam Levine
> > Your email address	: jarreth1@airmail.net
> > 
> > Category		: runtime: back-end
> > Severity		: non-critical
> > 
> > Summary: Grant select to other user removes owner select permission
> > 
> > System Configuration
> > --------------------
> >   Operating System   : Linux 2.0.33 Elf Slackware
> > 
> >   PostgreSQL version : 6.3
> > 
> >   Compiler used      : gcc 2.7.2
> > 
> > Hardware:
> > ---------
> > 486 PCI, 64M ram
> > 
> > Versions of other tools:
> > ------------------------
> > gmake 3.74
> > 
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > Problem Description:
> > --------------------
> > If a user creates a table, and then grants select privs to another user, the owner of the table can no longer select withouth first granting himself select privs.
> > No other permissions testing was done, fyi.
> > 
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > Test Case:
> > ----------
> > user1 (in their database) creates table1; user1 selects from table1 (success); user2 selects from table1 (failure); user1 grants select on table1 to user2; user2 selects from table1 (success); user1 selects from table1 (failure);
> > user1 grants select on table1 to user1; user1 selects from table1 (success);
> > 
> > --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> > 
> > Solution:
> > ---------
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