/show/security

URL: http://<db.host>:<db.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. The default value is an empty map ( {} ).

Supported Parameters (keys) Parameter Description
show_current_user

If true, returns only security information for the current user. The default value is false. The supported values are:

  • true
  • false

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_response' 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.

Possible 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.
resource_groups map of string to strings Map of user name to resource group name.
info map of string to strings Additional information.

Empty string in case of an error.