Re: Rejecting weak passwords - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Rejecting weak passwords
Date
Msg-id 13579.1255533115@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Rejecting weak passwords  (Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>)
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Re: Rejecting weak passwords
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Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> writes:
> I would suggest that in addition to the proposed plugin, we add an
> suset GUC (defaulting to OFF) which rejects any use of WITH ENCRYPTED
> PASSWORD to ensure that the password complexity can be checked when
> roles are created or modified.

That's going to stop us from being beat up?  A GUC that forcibly
*weakens* security?  I can't see it.

If you're really intent on making that happen, you can have your
password checker plugin reject crypted passwords; we don't need
such a questionable rule in core.
        regards, tom lane


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