| Subject | Re: [firebird-support] Users for application |
|---|---|
| Author | Woody |
| Post date | 2016-06-23T15:41:40Z |
One of the main reasons I have for using individual user names is to be
able to see who created/modified records. In an industrial system such as the
one I built and support, knowing who does what is very important, especially if
something gets entered wrong or changed inadvertently. Management likes to know
who is doing their job efficiently and who isn’t.
Woody (TMW)
Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2016 6:46 AM
Subject: Re: [firebird-support] Users for
application
You can still see which process is doing what using a single user,
though, since the system tables provide you with process name (foo.exe) and ip
address for each transaction.
I have the feeling that users are only worth the management cost if you're
in a big corporation with a bunch of developers and lots of users connecting to
the database. Then you would use roles and privileges appropriately (with a DBA
taking care of this, not the developers). But that's just a feeling really,
since I've never been in such a scenario.
Em qui, 23 de jun de 2016 às 05:30, Tim Ward tdw@... [firebird-support] <firebird-support@yahoogroups.com>
escreveu:
On 23/06/2016 03:17, 'Daniel Miller' dmiller@... [firebird-support] wrote:Separate from security theories and considerations of "good practice", what, if any, benefits accrue from using multiple users when accessing a Firebird database?We have different processes using different users. This means that poking around in the database to see what's going on (performance, long-lived transactions, etc) is a bit easier - we can instantly see which process is doing what, as the users are named after the processes.
-- Tim Ward