Restrict CREATEROLE privilege grant to NOLOGIN only?

Started by Alexander M. Sauer-Budgeover 9 years ago1 messagesgeneral
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#1Alexander M. Sauer-Budge
ambudge@alum.mit.edu

Is it possible to create a login user who themselves can CREATE ROLE NOLOGIN but not CREATE ROLE LOGIN? Here’s an example of the behavior I’d like to achieve.

$ psql
postgres=> CREATE USER admin WITH PASSWORD 'mypassword' CREATEROLE;
postgres=> — revoke something?
postgres=> \q

$ psql -U admin -W
postgres=> CREATE ROLE myrole;
CREATE ROLE
postgres=> CREATE USER myuser WITH PASSWORD '1234’;
ERROR: permission denied to create role

Of course, as written the final “CREATE USER” statement succeeds in reality.

Thanks,
Alex

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