SQL: OIDC and access management

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modules/reference/pages/sql/sql-statements/alter-user.adoc

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+= ALTER USER
+:description: The ALTER USER statement changes the password or superuser status of an existing user.
+:page-topic-type: reference
+
+The `ALTER USER` statement changes the password or superuser status of an existing user. `ALTER ROLE` is a synonym for `ALTER USER`, provided for PostgreSQL compatibility.
+
+A superuser can alter any user. A non-superuser can alter their own user (for example, to change their own password) but cannot change their own superuser status.
+
+== Syntax
+
+[source,sql]
+----
+ALTER { USER | ROLE } user_name [WITH]
+    [ PASSWORD 'password' ]
+    [ SUPERUSER | NOSUPERUSER ];
+----
+
+* `user_name`: Name of the existing user to alter. Use the reserved keyword `CURRENT_USER` or `CURRENT_ROLE` to alter the user running the statement.
+* `PASSWORD 'password'`: Optional. The new password. Must be a non-empty string literal if specified.
+* `SUPERUSER`: Optional. Promotes the user to superuser. Requires superuser privileges on the current session.
+* `NOSUPERUSER`: Optional. Removes superuser status from the user. The protected system superuser cannot be demoted.
+* `WITH`: Optional. Has no effect; provided for PostgreSQL compatibility.
+
+[NOTE]
+====
+On Redpanda Cloud BYOC, the Cloud operator synchronizes users from Redpanda Cloud's organization IAM. Changes from `ALTER USER` to attributes such as `SUPERUSER` may be reverted by the operator if they don't match the IAM-managed state. Manage user superuser status through Redpanda Cloud's data-plane RBAC roles instead. See xref:sql:manage/manage-access.adoc[Manage access to Redpanda SQL].
+====
+
+== Examples
+
+Change the password for an existing user:
+
+[source,sql]
+----
+ALTER USER "alice@example.com" WITH PASSWORD 'new_secret';
+----
+
+Change your own password (as the current user):
+
+[source,sql]
+----
+ALTER USER CURRENT_USER WITH PASSWORD 'new_secret';
+----
+
+Promote a regular user to superuser:
+
+[source,sql]
+----
+ALTER USER "alice@example.com" SUPERUSER;
+----
+
+== Suggested reading
+
+* xref:reference:sql/sql-statements/create-user.adoc[CREATE USER]
+* xref:reference:sql/sql-statements/drop-user.adoc[DROP USER]
+* xref:sql:manage/manage-access.adoc[Manage access to Redpanda SQL]

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+= CREATE USER
+:description: The CREATE USER statement creates a new user in Redpanda SQL with a required password. Only a superuser can create users.
+:page-topic-type: reference
+
+The `CREATE USER` statement creates a new user in Redpanda SQL. `CREATE ROLE` is a synonym for `CREATE USER`, provided for PostgreSQL compatibility. Only a superuser can run this statement.
+
+A password is required when creating a user.
+
+[NOTE]
+====
+Error messages from the SQL engine refer to users as "roles" (for example, `role "alice@example.com" does not exist`). This is consistent with PostgreSQL terminology and refers to the same object that `CREATE USER` produces.
+====
+
+[NOTE]
+====
+On Redpanda Cloud BYOC, users are provisioned automatically when a Redpanda Cloud user or service account is assigned a role with the *SQL: Access* or *SQL: Manage* permission. `CREATE USER` works syntactically, but the Cloud operator revokes `CONNECT` access for any user not present in Redpanda Cloud's organization IAM. Manage user lifecycle through Redpanda Cloud IAM instead. See xref:sql:manage/manage-access.adoc[Manage access to Redpanda SQL].
+====
+
+== Syntax
+
+[source,sql]
+----
+CREATE { USER | ROLE } user_name [WITH] PASSWORD 'password' [SUPERUSER | NOSUPERUSER];
+----
+
+* `user_name`: Name of the new user. Cannot be `CURRENT_USER` or `CURRENT_ROLE`.
+* `PASSWORD 'password'`: Required. The password must be a non-empty string literal.
+* `SUPERUSER`: Optional. Grants superuser privileges to the new user. Superusers bypass authorization checks.
+* `NOSUPERUSER`: Optional. Explicitly marks the user as a non-superuser. Default when neither `SUPERUSER` nor `NOSUPERUSER` is specified.
+* `WITH`: Optional. Has no effect; provided for PostgreSQL compatibility.
+
+== Examples
+
+Create a regular user with a password:
+
+[source,sql]
+----
+CREATE USER "alice@example.com" WITH PASSWORD 'secret123';
+----
+
+Create a superuser:
+
+[source,sql]
+----
+CREATE USER "admin@example.com" WITH PASSWORD 'admin_secret' SUPERUSER;
+----
+
+== Suggested reading
+
+* xref:reference:sql/sql-statements/alter-user.adoc[ALTER USER]
+* xref:reference:sql/sql-statements/drop-user.adoc[DROP USER]
+* xref:reference:sql/sql-statements/grant.adoc[GRANT]
+* xref:sql:manage/manage-access.adoc[Manage access to Redpanda SQL]

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+= DROP USER
+:description: The DROP USER statement removes an existing user. The user cannot own objects or hold grants when dropped.
+:page-topic-type: reference
+
+The `DROP USER` statement removes an existing user from Redpanda SQL. `DROP ROLE` is a synonym for `DROP USER`, provided for PostgreSQL compatibility. Only a superuser can run this statement.
+
+A user cannot be dropped while they own objects (for example, a catalog or table created by that user) or hold privilege grants. Reassign or drop the owned objects and revoke the grants first, then drop the user.
+
+[NOTE]
+====
+On Redpanda Cloud BYOC, the Cloud operator synchronizes users from Redpanda Cloud's organization IAM. If you `DROP USER` for an identity that still exists in Redpanda Cloud IAM, the operator can re-provision the user on the next sync. Remove the user from Redpanda Cloud IAM first, or use the data-plane RBAC role to revoke their SQL access. See xref:sql:manage/manage-access.adoc[Manage access to Redpanda SQL].
+====
+
+== Syntax
+
+[source,sql]
+----
+DROP { USER | ROLE } [IF EXISTS] user_name;
+----
+
+* `user_name`: Name of the user to drop. Cannot be `CURRENT_USER` or `CURRENT_ROLE`. The user running the statement cannot drop themselves, and the protected system superuser cannot be dropped.
+* `IF EXISTS`: Optional. Prevents an error if the user does not exist.
+
+== Examples
+
+Drop an existing user:
+
+[source,sql]
+----
+DROP USER "alice@example.com";
+----
+
+Drop a user only if it exists:
+
+[source,sql]
+----
+DROP USER IF EXISTS "legacy-account@example.com";
+----
+
+If the user has dependent grants or owned objects, the statement fails with an error listing the objects. Revoke the grants and reassign or drop owned objects first:
+
+[source,sql]
+----
+REVOKE SELECT ON EXTERNAL SOURCE default_redpanda_catalog FROM "alice@example.com";
+DROP USER "alice@example.com";
+----
+
+== Suggested reading
+
+* xref:reference:sql/sql-statements/create-user.adoc[CREATE USER]
+* xref:reference:sql/sql-statements/alter-user.adoc[ALTER USER]
+* xref:reference:sql/sql-statements/revoke.adoc[REVOKE]
+* xref:sql:manage/manage-access.adoc[Manage access to Redpanda SQL]

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+= GRANT
+:description: The GRANT statement assigns privileges on a database object to a role. Only a superuser can grant privileges.
+:page-topic-type: reference
+
+The `GRANT` statement assigns privileges on a database object to a role. Only a superuser can grant privileges.
+
+Redpanda SQL is deny-all by default. A role has no access to any object until a superuser grants it. For the broader access model, see xref:sql:manage/manage-access.adoc[].
+
+== Privilege levels
+
+A privilege is associated with a level. Each level supports a specific set of privilege types:
+
+[cols="<25%,<40%,<35%",options="header"]
+|===
+|Level |Object |Privilege types
+
+|Database
+|The Redpanda SQL database
+|`CONNECT`
+
+|Schema
+|A schema in the database
+|`USAGE`, `CREATE`
+
+|Table
+|A native SQL table
+|`SELECT`, `INSERT`, `UPDATE`, `DELETE`
+
+|External source
+|A Redpanda catalog or SQL storage definition
+|`SELECT`
+|===
+
+`ALL PRIVILEGES` resolves to the full set of privilege types at the given level. For external sources, `ALL PRIVILEGES` resolves to `SELECT` only.
+
+== Syntax
+
+=== Grant on a table
+
+[source,sql]
+----
+GRANT { privilege [, ...] | ALL [PRIVILEGES] } ON TABLE table_name TO role_name;
+----
+
+=== Grant on an external source
+
+A Redpanda catalog (the object created by `CREATE REDPANDA CATALOG`) and a SQL storage definition (the object created by `CREATE STORAGE`) are both external sources.
+
+The catalog-level form grants the privilege on every relation reachable through the source. The pattern form scopes the grant to relations whose name matches the pattern.
+
+[source,sql]
+----
+GRANT { SELECT | ALL [PRIVILEGES] } ON EXTERNAL SOURCE catalog_name TO role_name;
+GRANT { SELECT | ALL [PRIVILEGES] } ON EXTERNAL SOURCE catalog_name => 'pattern' TO role_name;
+----
+
+* `pattern`: A string literal that matches a relation name. The wildcard `*` is only allowed at the end of the pattern (for example, `'orders_*'`).
+
+=== Grant on a schema
+
+[source,sql]
+----
+GRANT { privilege [, ...] | ALL [PRIVILEGES] } ON SCHEMA schema_name TO role_name;
+----
+
+Schema-level privileges affect visibility and creation rights for objects in the schema. Without `USAGE` on a schema, a user cannot see catalogs in that schema or reference objects in it by name.
+
+=== Grant on the database
+
+Redpanda SQL exposes a single database, `oxla`.
+
+[source,sql]
+----
+GRANT CONNECT ON DATABASE oxla TO role_name;
+----
+
+[NOTE]
+====
+On Redpanda Cloud BYOC, `CONNECT` is managed automatically through the Cloud operator. Assigning the *SQL: Access* or *SQL: Manage* data-plane RBAC role grants `CONNECT`. Removing the role revokes it. Manual `GRANT CONNECT` may be reverted by the operator.
+====
+
+== Examples
+
+Grant `SELECT` on a topic surfaced through a Redpanda catalog:
+
+[source,sql]
+----
+GRANT SELECT ON EXTERNAL SOURCE default_redpanda_catalog => 'orders' TO "alice@example.com";
+----
+
+Grant `SELECT` on every topic in a Redpanda catalog:
+
+[source,sql]
+----
+GRANT SELECT ON EXTERNAL SOURCE default_redpanda_catalog TO "alice@example.com";
+----
+
+Grant `SELECT` on every topic whose name starts with `orders_`:
+
+[source,sql]
+----
+GRANT SELECT ON EXTERNAL SOURCE default_redpanda_catalog => 'orders_*' TO "alice@example.com";
+----
+
+Grant `USAGE` on a schema so the user can see the catalogs and storage in it:
+
+[source,sql]
+----
+GRANT USAGE ON SCHEMA public TO "alice@example.com";
+----
+
+Grant `SELECT` and `INSERT` on a native SQL table:
+
+[source,sql]
+----
+GRANT SELECT, INSERT ON TABLE summary_data TO "alice@example.com";
+----
+
+== Suggested reading
+
+* xref:reference:sql/sql-statements/revoke.adoc[REVOKE]
+* xref:reference:sql/sql-statements/create-user.adoc[CREATE USER]
+* xref:sql:manage/manage-access.adoc[Manage access to Redpanda SQL]