# User management

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Podcast: [Postgres FM](https://stenobird.com/podcast/postgres-fm-5565051)
Published: 2025-10-03T13:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://share.transistor.fm/s/a6c3ed12
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## Resource

Nik and Michael discuss user management in Postgres — how roles work, making administration easier, setting passwords, and avoiding them being logged. Here are some links to things they mentioned: Roles https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/user-manag.html Privileges https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/ddl-priv.html ALTER DEFAULT PRIVILEGES https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-alterdefaultprivileges.html GRANT https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-grant.html REASSIGN OWNED https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-reassign-owned.html ALTER ROLE (including SET) https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-alterrole.html CREATE ROLE https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/sql-createrole.html Have I Been Pwned https://haveibeenpwned.com Pwned Passwords API https://haveibeenpwned.com/API/v3#PwnedPasswords Crunchy Data PostgreSQL Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) https://www.crunchydata.com/blog/announcing-the-crunchy-data-postgresql-stig Our episode on auditing https://postgres.fm/episodes/auditing ~~~ What did you like or not like? What should we discuss next time? Let us know via a YouTube comment, on social media, or by commenting on our Google doc ! ~~~ Postgres FM is produced by: Michael Christofides, founder of pgMustard Nikolay Samokhvalov, founder of Postgres.ai With credit to: Jessie Draws for the elephant artwork

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