System privileges
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Key: DERBY-2109
URL: http://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/DERBY-2109
Project: Derby
Issue Type: New Feature
Components: Security
Affects Versions: 10.3.0.0
Reporter: Rick Hillegas
Fix For: 10.3.0.0
Add mechanisms for controlling system-level privileges in Derby. See the
related email discussion at
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.apache.db.derby.devel/33151.
The 10.2 GRANT/REVOKE work was a big step forward in making Derby more secure
in a client/server configuration. I'd like to plug more client/server security
holes in 10.3. In particular, I'd like to focus on authorization issues which
the ANSI spec doesn't address.
Here are the important issues which came out of the email discussion.
Missing privileges that are above the level of a single database:
- Create Database
- Shutdown all databases
- Shutdown System
Missing privileges specific to a particular database:
- Shutdown that Database
- Encrypt that database
- Create (in that Database) Java Plugins (currently Functions/Procedures, but
someday Aggregates and VTIs)
Note that 10.2 gave us GRANT/REVOKE control over the following
database-specific issues, via granting execute privilege to system procedures:
Jar Handling
Backup Routines
Admin Routines
Import/Export
Property Handling
Check Table
In addition, since 10.0, the privilege of connecting to a database has been
controlled by two properties (derby.database.fullAccessUsers and
derby.database.defaultConnectionMode) as described in the security section of
the Developer's Guide (see
http://db.apache.org/derby/docs/10.2/devguide/cdevcsecure865818.html).
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