ALTER USER

Description

Alters the attributes of a database user.

Precautions

Session parameters modified by ALTER USER apply to a specified user and take effect in the next session.

Syntax

Modify user permissions or other information.

ALTER USER user_name [ [ WITH ] option [ ... ] ];

The option clause is as follows:

{ CREATEDB | NOCREATEDB }
    | { CREATEROLE | NOCREATEROLE }
    | { INHERIT | NOINHERIT }
    | { AUDITADMIN | NOAUDITADMIN }
    | { SYSADMIN | NOSYSADMIN }
    | {MONADMIN | NOMONADMIN}
    | {OPRADMIN | NOOPRADMIN}
    | {POLADMIN | NOPOLADMIN}
    | { USEFT | NOUSEFT }
    | { LOGIN | NOLOGIN }
    | { REPLICATION | NOREPLICATION }
    | {VCADMIN | NOVCADMIN}
    | {PERSISTENCE | NOPERSISTENCE}
    | CONNECTION LIMIT connlimit
    | [ ENCRYPTED | UNENCRYPTED ] PASSWORD { 'password' [EXPIRED] | DISABLE | EXPIRED }
    | [ ENCRYPTED | UNENCRYPTED ] IDENTIFIED BY { 'password' [ REPLACE 'old_password' | EXPIRED ] | DISABLE }
    | VALID BEGIN 'timestamp'
    | VALID UNTIL 'timestamp'
    | PERM SPACE 'spacelimit'
    | PGUSER

Change the username.

ALTER USER user_name 
    RENAME TO new_name;

Lock or unlock.

ALTER USER user_name
    ACCOUNT { LOCK | UNLOCK };

Change the value of a specified parameter associated with the user.

ALTER USER user_name 
    SET configuration_parameter { { TO | = } { value | DEFAULT } | FROM CURRENT };

Reset the value of a specified parameter associated with the user.

ALTER USER user_name 
    RESET { configuration_parameter | ALL };

Parameters

user_name
Specifies the current username.

Value range: an existing username. If a username contains uppercase letters, enclose the name with double quotation marks ("").
new_password
Specifies a new password.

The new password must:
- Differ from the old password.
- Contain at least eight characters. This is the default length.
- Differ from the username or the username spelled backward.
- Contain at least three of the following character types: uppercase characters, lowercase characters, digits, and special characters (limited to ~!@#$ %^&*()-_=+\|[{}];:,<.>/?). If the password contains characters other than the preceding characters, an error will be reported during statement execution.
- The user password should be enclosed in single quotation marks (').
Value range: a string.
old_password
Specifies the old password.
ACCOUNT { LOCK | UNLOCK }
- ACCOUNT LOCK: locks an account to forbid login to databases.
- ACCOUNT UNLOCK: unlocks an account to allow login to databases.
PGUSER
In the current version, the PGUSER attribute of a user cannot be modified.