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Old 04-11-2008, 05:38 AM
Michael Paesold
 
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Default Re: [PATCHES] Users/Groups -> Roles

Stephen Frost wrote:
> I can perhaps see a special case for SECURITY DEFINER functions but if
> we're going to special case them I'd think we'd need to make them only
> be creatable/modifiable at all by superusers or add another flag to the
> role to allow that.


I agree that owner changes of SECURITY DEFINER functions seem dangerous. I
would follow Stephen's idea that SECURITY DEFINER functions should only be
creatable/modifiable by superusers.

This would be similar to unix, where setting the suid/sgid bits is usually
only allowed to root.

Best Regards,
Michael Paesold


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