Re: security via views

Hello,

yes this works. Just drop the rights on the table and grand the rights on the
view.

Peter

Am Mittwoch, 27. April 2005 17:52 schrieb Enrico Weigelt:
> Hi folks,
>
> we've got a larger project with several subsystems, which should
> run in their own security context / users.
>
> Most of the database access works over views and functions.
> For functions its possible to run them with separate privileges
> than the calling user. But is this also possible with views ?
> I've noticed that for views also GRANT is necessary (AFAIK a
> view is nothing else than a table with appropriate RULEs).
> Does it work to grant some user access to his own view, but
> not to the tables where the view works on ?
>
>
> thx