[Phpmyadmin-devel] Should a user be able to remove their own privileges?

[Hugues Peccatte]

Le 16 juil. 2014 23:46, "Isaac Bennetch" <bennetch at gmail.com> a écrit :
>
> Bringing this to phpmyadmin--devel for further discussion. This is
> specifically related to implementing feature request 1488 "User
> privilege tab not shown in all relevant cases" [1]
>
> On 7/16/14, 4:00 PM, Chirayu Chiripal wrote:
> > Does it makes sense, to allow a user to revoke some of the global
> > privileges from himself?
>
> I think ideally, we would allow this but display a message warning that
> it's a bad idea. Something like "You are attempting to remove privileges
> from the user with which you are currently logged in. This is generally
> a bad idea and might result in you being unable to log in or change
> privileges. Are you sure you wish to remove these privileges?"
>
> I can't think of a scenario when a user would actually want to do this;
> but just because it's a bad idea doesn't mean we should prevent the user
> from doing it, right? Or in this case, is it reasonable to disallow this
> action?
>
> What does everyone else think?
>
> 1 - https://sourceforge.net/p/phpmyadmin/feature-requests/1488/

Hi,

I agree with you that we should allow it, but also display a warning
message.

Hugues.
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