Getting Started with DB2 Express-C

184 Getting Started with DB2 Express-C
As shown by Figure 10.6, you select the desired table, right-click on it, and choose
Privileges. Once selected, the Table Privileges dialog box appears as shown in Figure
10.7. This figure also explains the different fields and elements of the dialog box.
Figure 10.7 – The Table Privileges Dialog box
Alternatively, you can query the DB2 SYSCAT catalog views which contain the
authorization information. For example, if you would like to know if user DB2ADMIN has
SELECT privilege on table T2, and would like to know who granted this privilege, you could
run a query like this:
SELECT grantor, grantee, selectauth
FROM syscat.tabauth
WHERE tabname = 'T2'
GRANTOR GRANTEE SELECTAUTH
-------------------------------------------------
ARFCHONG DB2ADMIN Y
In the above example, user ARFCHONG granted SELECT privilege to user DB2ADMIN.
10.7 Extended Security on Windows
To prevent access through the Windows operating system to DB2 files and directories
(such as the ones where DB2 stores instance information), DB2 enables by default
extended security at installation time. Extended security creates two groups: