Subject Re: [firebird-support] Dabase Owner Privileges changed in Firebird 2.1?
Author Huan Ruan
Any ideas please.

On 24 September 2010 15:19, ruan_h <leohuanruan@...> wrote:

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>
> Hi
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> When we used to run Firebird 1.5 and 2.0, if a user other than the owner of
> the database creates a table but doesn't grant any permissions to the
> database owner, then the owner can't read/update/delete the table, can't
> drop the table, and can't grant permissions on this table. This is all as
> expected.
>
> Now that we upgraded to 2.1, I recently noticed that in the same scenario,
> the database owner can now read/update/delete the table, and even drop the
> table. This doesn't seem right to me. Also, it's inconsistent that the owner
> can drop the table but still can't grant permissions on it.
>
> I couldn't find any reference to this in the release notes. Could someone
> please explain why this was changed? Thanks.
>
> We're running classic on Linux, but I get the same behaviour on Windows.
>
> Thanks
> Huan
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