Re: Interesting suid problem

[rsteinke w-link net]

From: Jeff Shipman - SysProg <jeff nmt edu>
>
> I'm using Oracle and some columns of some
> tables should be viewable to some users while
> other columns of the same table are viewable.
> I would have to write out a billion different
> queries, different ones for each access
> level to do this. Kinda infeasible, IMO espcially
> since our queries may change often depending
> on new features we add to the software.
>
> Jeff Shipman           E-Mail: jeff nmt edu
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>
> On Thu, 21 Feb 2002 rsteinke w-link net wrote:
> }
> } Can't you make the database itself able to enforce user access
> } to certain databases? I think Postgresql can do this.

That's what shell scripts are for.

Ron Steinke