/show/security

URL: http://GPUDB_IP_ADDRESS:GPUDB_PORT/show/security

Shows security information relating to users and/or roles. If the caller is not a system administrator, only information relating to the caller and their roles is returned.

Input Parameter Description

Name	Type	Description
names	array of strings	A list of names of users and/or roles about which security information is requested. If none are provided, information about all users and roles will be returned.
options	map of string to strings	Optional parameters.

Output Parameter Description

The GPUdb server embeds the endpoint response inside a standard response structure which contains status information and the actual response to the query. Here is a description of the various fields of the wrapper:

Name	Type	Description
status	String	'OK' or 'ERROR'
message	String	Empty if success or an error message
data_type	String	'show_security_request' or 'none' in case of an error
data	String	Empty string
data_str	JSON or String	This embedded JSON represents the result of the /show/security endpoint: Name Type Description types map of string to strings Map of user/role name to the type of that user/role. Allowed Values Description internal_user A user whose credentials are managed by the database system. external_user A user whose credentials are managed by an external LDAP. role A role. roles map of string to arrays of strings Map of user/role name to a list of names of roles of which that user/role is a member. permissions map of string to arrays of maps of string to strings Map of user/role name to a list of permissions directly granted to that user/role. Empty string in case of an error.