Questions tagged [users]
For questions about database user accounts.
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Unable to drop user due to assigned privileges?
How do you drop a user with read-only permission to PostgreSQL?
I created a user, with read-only access to all tables, on an RDS Postgres database with:
CREATE ROLE myuser WITH LOGIN PASSWORD '...
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MongoDB account -- is it an administrator's account?
I'm more familiar with MySQL, but in my new workplace, I have to look after a MongoDB database (MongoDB 4.2.18 with Mongosh 1.1.9 running on Ubuntu 18.04.6 -- yes, it's old; upgrading is a problem for ...
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Managing database Users when restoring backups across environments
I have numerous Azure SQL Server Databases that teammates backup and restore. The issue we're running into is regarding the Users on these databases. We have Azure AD Groups that contain the ...
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Unable to connect to Oracle user in pluggable database
for some reason, i am unable to connect with any user that I create. their account status is also unlocked.
I want to mention one thing; the pdbs are clone of the main pdb. (as shown by their name ...
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ORA 01918: user '...' does not exist
I am new to Oracle DB and I am currently working with Oracle Database 21c express edition.
After the installation, I created a common user "C##OLUAKIN" so that I don't have to do my work on ...
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Can only use Oracle user when logged in as SYSDBA
I've just been setting up Oracle 19c on my Windows 10 Pro desktop following a hard drive failure. The install itself went well and I could log in with / as sysdba fine, but every user I seem to add ...
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SQL Server Job running as different user
A year or so ago I started working on a project to set up a job to run a stored procedure. I've now come back to this to finish it off. When I run the job I get an error that he job is running under ...
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Can a user connected as sysdba always bypass auditing mechanisms?
Can a user connected as sysdba always bypass auditing mechanisms? What could be done to minimize (or prevent) auditing prevention?
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Azure SQL: How can I share replicated db access with specific users?
I have 2 Azure SQL instances :
db-main which is my main DB, containing both my-db and master databases.
db-replica which contains a readonly replica my-db@db-main
I have currently a user my-db-admin ...
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What the difference between User, Login and role in postgresql?
In my case I wanted to prevent table and view listing from db that has 2 schemas:
public
bi
And I wanted to prevent any table and view listing from public to a specific user therefore I consulted ...
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what permissions does user need to have to use linked server and its default remote user mapping
i have some linkedserver and for it created default maping that mapping list is empty
and all goes thrue 'Be made using this seciurity context'
and this works fine - i can querry this linked from any ...
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Postgresql Large object permissions for two users
I would like two separate users of a postgresql database to have access to large objects created by the other user. I don't have control over the code being run by these users, and if it matters, that ...
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Changing root and user passwords in MariaDB 10.5?
We have a few MariaDB servers (MariaDB 10.5, running on Debian 11/bullseye) where we need to change the passwords for the DB root user and for other user accounts in the DB system (by which I mean ...
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Why SQL Server Job fails with "EXECUTE AS LOGIN failed for the requested login"?
I created a SQL Server job, in which:
My user is set as the owner of the job
No user is specified for run as at any step.
The job failed with the error:
'EXECUTE AS LOGIN' failed for the requested ...
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SQL Server can't login in any user by SQL Authentication
So I just installed SQL Server Developer and SQL Management Studio in my personal computer.
I have worked with SQL Server before but I never had to install and configure one so I was quite lost.
The ...
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What is login token and user token in SQL Server?
I came across these two SQL Server catalog views today: sys.login_token and sys.user_token. The document states that they:
Returns one row for every server principal that is part of the login token.
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MySQL Not Resolving % in Host
Running MySql server 8.0.31 on an Amazon EC2 instance (52.99.189.74) in Ubuntu 22.04. When I log in to the mysql prompt with sudo, this is how the user and host columns of the mysql.user table look ...
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Store First and Lastname (Fullname) for Oracle Users?
Is it possible to store first-/last-/fullnames and possibly additional information of/for oracle user accounts in oracle?
I look at the table dba_users but it does not contain such information.
I need ...
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Make all users within group role inherit permissions
I have a group role that consists of around 1,000 users. Those users do not inherit group role permissions, and I would like to make them all inherit them instead.
What would be the way to do it ...
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How do you create an atlas user in a non-admin db?
There doesn't seem to be an option in mongo atlas UI to create a user in any database other than admin.
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password authentication failed for user "postgres"
The sample.sql is simple.
create database test;
The settings on /etc/postgresql/13/main/pg_hba.conf.
local all postgres md5
local all all ...
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Grouping user into Role to access FDW table
Recently I setup Forward Data Wrapper. Here is what I do:
CREATE SERVER foreign_server FOREIGN DATA WRAPPER postgres_fdw OPTIONS (host '192.168.125.1', port '5432', dbname 'template1 ');
IMPORT ...
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DACPAC drops existing users and permissions from database when upgrading through SSMS
I'm developing my database through a database project in visual studio, and whenever I need to upgrade the schema of my database I like to use SSMS to do this using a DACPAC.
But whenever I use my ...
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Do Postgres Roles carry over from Databases if Databases are in the same server?
If I am creating a new Database on the same hostname/server, Will the roles/users carry over?
Or will I have to create them again with new names and passwords?
I see roles/users listed as server ...
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create a oracle database user with no object in tablespace [closed]
Create user Sara with a password of sara. Make sure that any objects not created
in the system tablespace and Sara can log in and create objects up to 10M in size in the MYUSERS.
how to create a ...
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What's wrong with my user mapping in pg_ident?
I have successfully setup certificate based authentication in postgresql-11. Now I want to do a user mapping:
pg_ident.conf
# MAPNAME SYSTEM-USERNAME PG-USERNAME
mymap /^(.*)\.testnet\....
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Error trying to add a login to Azure SQL Special Role 'dbmanager'
Upon running these commands on an Azure SQL instance:
CREATE LOGIN test WITH PASSWORD=N'Passw0rd'
GO
ALTER ROLE dbmanager ADD MEMBER test
GO
... I'm getting an error:
Cannot add the server principal ...
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Best practise making users in Maria db database
Iam creating a basic banking database to practise MariaDB, so I wanted to know what the general guidance on what kind of users you should be making and what type of privileges?
Currently I have a read ...
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Maria DB not letting me creating more then 1 user at once
I am trying to make a read only and a full privledge admin user to my database with the following code:
DROP USER IF EXISTS 'readonly'@'localhost';
CREATE USER 'readonly'@'localhost' IDENTIFIED BY '...
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Create readonly user in postgresql
Using pg 13.4, created a readonly user reader for database abc, via:
CREATE ROLE reader WITH LOGIN PASSWORD 'psssswwwd'
NOSUPERUSER INHERIT NOCREATEDB NOCREATEROLE NOREPLICATION VALID UNTIL 'infinity'...
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How to make a restricted view in oracle?
I had to provide data for an application schema, but there is a requirement that the applications connecting using that schema user cannot query more than five rows at a time, the application queries ...
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How to create a mysql user that can access from any host but localhost
I was asked to create a mysql user that can connect to the server from any host but localhost.
I tend to believe that "%" also means localhost but according to my teacher, localhost is not ...
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See Max Simultaneous Sessions Per User
In an effort to set a reasonable sessions_per_user profile setting for shared database accounts or other non-unique account (ie. an account an application uses to log into the database for all app ...
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Data from other user not visible
I am using Oracle and SQL Developer to create a database. I am fairly new to SQL, so this may be a simple question. I have my SYSTEM user, who owns several tables, for example this one:
CREATE TABLE ...
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Can you synchronize user accounts with specific DB permissions with records found in a table?
Background / Current Setup
I have a database in a SQL server that uses row level security to determine what records a user has access to.
Users will have two methods to interact with the database. ...
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In trino I keep getting `Access Denied: Cannot select from table system.jdbc.tables`
I just created a new user dataengineer and user group data-engineer
When I try to connect with the user dataengineer using dbeaver I get the following errors.
SQL Error [4]: Query failed (#...
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Azure SQL database make AD user see more databases in SSMS
I'm using Azure SQL databases and want to add a user from my company using Active Directory auth, so adding the user from external provider.
The problem - by design Azure SQL creates AD users as ...
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CREATE LOGIN "MUST_CHANGE" does not work for Azure
I want to create logins for users for my Azure SQL database.
Naturally I don't want to know the users' passwords so I want to set it up so that they HAVE to change their password on first login.
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Is there a simple way to add a read-only user?
I have a hosted (shared) SQL Server database and I'd like to add a read-only login. (This login will be used to build Power BI data visualization.)
Looking into this, it's far more complex than I ...
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Revoke CREATE for a user from Google Cloud SQL Postgres?
I'm using Google Cloud SQL Postgres and having difficulty revoking privileges to create tables from a user.
I first removed all roles and attributes from the user (truncated for brevity):
mydatabase=&...
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How to restrict Users to see only their databases where has access? [duplicate]
I need to restrict the list of database for our users in a SQL Instance
In order to move forward this
I revoked the view any database permission to the user desired.
But I figured out that only ...
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Create multi-user database schema with roles, permissions, and services
I am in the process of designing a user administration database and I am stuck in the creation of the tables and their relationships, in order to explain myself below I expose the requirements of the ...
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Drop role postgresql
I just inherited an AWS RDS PostgreSQL 12.5 instance (so, no superuser access) and I'm required to do some cleanup and delete a bunch of groups/roles/users. I'm executing the following commands with ...
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AAD users lose access to database after import
I googled for the last few days but I got a bit confused and I do not know how to proceed further. Also, I'm not a DBA and I was just faced with this situation for the first time.
Using sqlpackage.exe ...
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Can't create schema for a db with PostgreSQL
Use psql -U postgres to login.
postgres=> CREATE DATABASE mydb;
postgres=> \c mydb;
You are now connected to database "mydb" as user "postgres".
When create schema, got
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Create non-sysdba user that can grant tablespace to other users
I am creating an Oracle role with Admin option Grants so that user with this role assigned, will not be a full sysdba but will be able to create other users and grant them permissions.
What I ...
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How to set statement timeout per user?
I have multiple users in Postgres. I would like to set up different statement timeouts for different users.
Eg: Guest 5 minutes and Admin 10 minutes.
Is it possible in Postgres 11.11?
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Adding AD Security group to a SQL linked server
I have a question about adding permissions for a user group on a linked server in SQL Server. I am not a security specialist, so I appeal to everyone.
Here is the topo:
I have private software that I'...
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Can I GRANT SELECT on all schemas in a database?
I need to create role users of which can only read (select) data.
I can do it for a particular schema.
But I need it to work with all existing and future schemas (existing at least). How can I do it?
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MariaDB default user accounts created during installation?
I have installed MariaDB 5.5.57 and phpMyAdmin 5.1.0 on my QNAP NAS.
I notice that 7 user accounts were created during installation;
What's the purpose of the three "Any" accounts, and do I ...
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