Re: Rejecting weak passwords - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Bruce Momjian
Subject Re: Rejecting weak passwords
Date
Msg-id 200910022256.n92Mu9009537@momjian.us
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In response to Re: Rejecting weak passwords  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> > That said, it would still be good to have something actually *useful*
> > in contrib. A bit more than just comparing userid and password.
> > Perhaps at least being able to set the min length, and the requirement
> > on having >1 "character class"?
> 
> +1.  There's still the issue of not being able to do much with a
> pre-MD5'd password, though.

Agreed.  I am still a little worried that people will think they are
checking for weak passwords when, for MD5, they are not.  I am also
worried that people will unknowingly reduce their security (not use MD5)
to allow weak password checking.

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