Does the following command effectively give the user, "MyUser," permission to execute ALL stored procedures in the database?
GRANT EXECUTE TO [MyDomain\MyUser]
SQL Server 2008 and Above:
/* CREATE A NEW ROLE */
CREATE ROLE db_executor
/* GRANT EXECUTE TO THE ROLE */
GRANT EXECUTE TO db_executor
For just a user (not a role):
USE [DBName]
GO
GRANT EXECUTE TO [user]
SQL Server 2005 introduced the ability to grant database execute permissions to a database principle, as you've described:
GRANT EXECUTE TO [MyDomain\MyUser]
That will grant permission at the database scope, which implicitly includes all stored procedures in all schemas. This means that you don't have to explicitly grant permissions per stored procedure.
You can also restrict by granting schema execute permissions if you want to be more granular:
GRANT EXECUTE ON SCHEMA ::dbo TO [MyDomain\MyUser]
In addition to the answers above, I'd like to add:
You might want to grant this to a role instead, and then assign the role to the user(s).
Suppose you have created a role myAppRights via
CREATE ROLE [myAppRights]
then you can give execute rights via
GRANT EXECUTE TO [myAppRights]
to that role.
Or, if you want to do it on schema level:
GRANT EXECUTE ON SCHEMA ::dbo TO [myAppRights]
also works (in this example, the role myAppRights will have execute rights on all elements of schema dbo afterwards).
This way, you only have to do it once and can assign/revoke all related application rights easily to/from a user if you need to change that later on - especially useful if you want to create more complex access profiles.
Note: If you grant a role to a schema, that affects also elements you will have created later - this might be beneficial or not depending on the design you intended, so keep that in mind.
Related
I am connecting to my SQL studio manager using Power BI (a report writing software). I only want tables appearing listed under a certain schema, and deny permission to access all others, instead of displaying all tables which it currently does.
Usually, when preventing individual users from accessing a schema, I would use the following code:
revoke select on schema::UnwantedSchema to User
grant select on schema::WantedSchema To User
However, now I want it so ALL users and Logins have these permission settings. Not just the individual user. Is there a way I can do this without having to set the permissions for every individual user?
If you wanted to set the privileges to multiple user logins, You need to create a role and assign the role to the ers to that role. The give required permission to the role created.
Following are the sample steps.
--Create a new role
EXEC sp_addrole 'yourRole'
GO
--Assiging role to the user
EXEC sp_addrolemember 'yourRole', 'yourUser';
GO
--Assigning permissions to the Role
GRANT ALTER, DELETE, EXECUTE, INSERT, REFERENCES, SELECT,
UPDATE, VIEW DEFINITION ON SCHEMA::YourSchema TO yourRole;
GO
GRANT CREATE TABLE, CREATE PROCEDURE, CREATE FUNCTION, CREATE VIEW TO yourRole;
GO
Requirement:
User A can log in to SS instance, but only has access to database X. User A has no other access to any objects.
database X has a stored_proc called "sp_exec_dml" which takes a DML string and executes it. This stored proc would(should?) run as the owner X.
does database X, or the stored procedure ""sp_exec_dml" then need access to other dbs/objects.
for example
user A executes
exec x..sp_exec_dml N"update z..table set ..................."
I hope this makes sense. I come from an Oracle background so exactly how permissions are granted and who the grantees can be is confusing.
do databases or stored procedures have access granted to them
thanks
According to the MSDN : (URL : https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-US/library/ms345484.aspx )
To grant permissions on a stored procedure
In Object Explorer, connect to an instance of Database Engine and then expand that instance.
Expand Databases, expand the database in which the procedure belongs, and then expand Programmability.
Expand Stored Procedures, right-click the procedure to grant permissions on, and then click Properties.
From Stored Procedure Properties, select the Permissions page.
To grant permissions to a user, database role, or application role, click Search.
In Select Users or Roles, click Object Types to add or clear the users and roles you want.
Click Browse to display the list of users or roles. Select the users or roles to whom permissions should be granted.
In the Explicit Permissions grid, select the permissions to grant to the specified user or role. For a description of the permissions,
see Permissions (Database Engine).
Selecting Grant indicates the grantee will be given the specified
permission. Selecting Grant With indicates that the grantee will also
be able to grant the specified permission to other principals.
This link also explains few concepts :
(URL : https://dba.stackexchange.com/questions/6878/sql-server-stored-procedure-permissions )
Stored procedures take advantage of ownership chaining to provide
access to data so that users do not need to have explicit permission
to access database objects. An ownership chain exists when objects
that access each other sequentially are owned by the same user. For
example, a stored procedure can call other stored procedures, or a
stored procedure can access multiple tables. If all objects in the
chain of execution have the same owner, then SQL Server only checks
the EXECUTE permission for the caller, not the caller's permissions on
other objects. Therefore you need to grant only EXECUTE permissions on
stored procedures; you can revoke or deny all permissions on the
underlying tables.
If database X has "table" in
exec x..sp_exec_dml N"update z..table set ..................."
then the user should have access.
How do you grant read/select access on all functions and views to an arbitrary user?
I use psql --user=postgres -d mydb -f myview.sql to create several functions and views, and then I run:
GRANT ALL PRIVILEGES ON DATABASE mydb TO myuser;
Having been granted all privileges, I would expect myuser to now have access to the functions and views created by the postgres user. However, when I try and access them with myuser, I get a "permission denied for relation..." error. Why is this?
The reason is that you need additional privileges to access a view or table. Privileges on the database do not cover access to all objects in it.
It is different with functions: EXECUTE privilege is granted to public by default. But the function is executed with the privileges of the current user. You may be interested in the SECURITY DEFINER modifier for CREATE FUNCTION. But normally it is enough to grant SELECT on involved tables.
Per documentation about default privileges:
Depending on the type of object, the initial default privileges might
include granting some privileges to PUBLIC. The default is no public
access for tables, columns, schemas, and tablespaces; CONNECT
privilege and TEMP table creation privilege for databases; EXECUTE
privilege for functions; and USAGE privilege for languages.
You may be interested in this DDL command (requires Postgres 9.0 or later):
GRANT SELECT ON ALL TABLES IN SCHEMA public TO myuser;
While connected to the database in question, of course (see #marcel's comment below), and as a user with sufficient privileges. You may also be interested in the setting DEFAULT PRIVILEGES:
Grant all on a specific schema in the db to a group role in PostgreSQL
More detailed answer how to manage privileges:
How to manage DEFAULT PRIVILEGES for USERs on a DATABASE vs SCHEMA?
pgAdmin has a feature for more sophisticated bulk operations:
Or you can query the system catalogs to create DDL statements for bulk granting / revoking ...
What is the diffrence between...
execute as user = 'testuser'
AND
execute as login = 'testuser'
I am executing a cross database procedure under these logins and it works with the exececute as login but not the execute as user. It is saying the server principal "testuser" is nt able to access the database "xxx" under the securty context.
When i SELECT SYSTEM_USER after both commands I see that it is set to 'testuser'
execute as login provides impersonation to the entire server, since logins are on a server level. Since users are defined per database, execute as user impersonation applies only to a specific database, which is why you see the error when you cross databases.
The EXECUTE AS can be added to stored procs, functions, triggers, etc.
Example to Execute As:
CREATE PROCEDURE dbo.MyProcedure
WITH EXECUTE AS OWNER
In this case you are impersonating the owner of the module being called.
You can also impersonate SELF, OR the USER creating or altering the module OR...
impersonate CALLER , which will enable to module to take on the permissions of the current user, OR...
impersonate OWNER, which will take on the permission of the owner of the procedure being called OR...
impersonate 'user_name', which will impersonate a specific user OR...
impersonate 'login_name' with will impersonate a specific login.
Setting permission on objects like stored procedures can be accomplished with
GRANT EXECUTE ON <schema>.<procedurename> to <username>;
However, you may also want to grant security rights at both the login and user level.
You will want to determine and grant ONLY the necessary rights
for the objects that require access (such as execution). Consider use of the "EXECUTE AS" capability which enables impersonation of another user
to validate permissions that are required to execute the code WITHOUT having to grant all of the necessary rights to all of the underlying objects (e.g. tables).
MOST of the time, you will only need to grant EXECUTE rights to stored procs and then rights are granted to all objects referenced within the stored proc.
In this way, you do not need to give implicit rights (example: to update data or call additional procs). Ownership chaining handles this for you.
This is especially helpful for dynamic sql or if you need to create elevated security tasks such as CREATE TABLE. EXECUTE AS is a handy tool to consider for these.
This example may help clarify all of this:
--Create a user called NoPrivUser with public access to a database (e.g. dbadb)
USE [master]
GO
CREATE LOGIN [NoPrivUser] WITH PASSWORD=N'ABC5%', DEFAULT_DATABASE=[dbadb], CHECK_EXPIRATION=ON, CHECK_POLICY=ON
GO
USE [DBAdb]
GO
CREATE USER [NoPrivUser] FOR LOGIN [NoPrivUser]
GO
NOTE: CREATOR OR OWNER OF THIS PROCEDURE WILL REQUIRE CREATE TABLE RIGHTS within the target database.
use DBAdb
go
CREATE PROCEDURE dbo.MyProcedure
WITH EXECUTE AS OWNER
AS
IF NOT EXISTS (SELECT * FROM sys.objects WHERE object_id = OBJECT_ID(N'[dbo].MyTable') AND type in (N'U'))
CREATE TABLE MyTable (PKid int, column1 char(10))
INSERT INTO MyTable
VALUES (1,'ABCDEF')
GO
GRANT EXEC ON dbo.MyProcedure TO NoPrivUser;
GO
-- Now log into your database server as NoPrivUser and run the following.
use dbadb
go
EXEC dbo.MyProcedure
--(1 row(s) affected)
Now try to select from the new table while logged on as NoPrivuser.
You will get the following:
select * from MyTable
go
Msg 229, Level 14, State 5, Line 1 The SELECT permission was denied on
the object 'MyTable', database 'DBAdb', schema 'dbo'.
That is expected since you only ran the procedure under the security context of Owner while logged on as NoPrivUser.
NoPrivUser as no rights to actually read the table, Just to execute the procedure which creates and inserts the rows.
With the EXECUTE AS clause the stored procedure is run under the context of the object owner. This code successfully creates dbo.MyTable and rows are inserted successfully.
In this example, the user "NoPrivUser" has absolutey no granted rights to modify the table, or read or modify any of the data in this table.
It only takes on the rights needed to complete this specific task coded WITHIN the context of this procedure.
This method of creating stored procedures that can perform tasks that require elevated security rights without permanently assigning those rights come be very useful.
Login scope is at the server level while user scope is at the current database level
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms181362.aspx
I am looking for a way to have a database user only have rights to execute stored procedures and functions. This needs to be a dynamic setting so that every time i add a stored procedure or function they have rights to it.
Constraints
I cannot change the names of the schema or stored prcedures or functions.
In SQL Server 2005 and newer, you can create a new database role
CREATE ROLE db_executor
and then grant that role the permission to execute - without specifying anything.
GRANT EXECUTE TO db_executor
This role can now execute all stored procedures and function in the database - and it will be able to execute any future stored procedures you add to the database, too!
So now just add this role to your user and you're done:
exec sp_addrolemember #rolename = 'db_executor', #membername = 'your-user-name-here'
PS: of course, you could also grant this permission to just a single user:
GRANT EXECUTE TO your-user-name
This makes management a nightmare, however - so I wouldn't go down that path..