Re: Rejecting weak passwords - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Joshua D. Drake
Subject Re: Rejecting weak passwords
Date
Msg-id 1254178785.32237.3.camel@jd-desktop.iso-8859-1.charter.com
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In response to Re: Rejecting weak passwords  (Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>)
List pgsql-hackers
On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 15:52 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> > It takes about 32 hours to brute force all passwords from [a-zA-Z0-9]
> > of up to 8 chars in length.
> 
> That would be a reason to limit the number of failed connection attempts
> from a single source, then, rather than a reason to change the hash
> function.
> 
> Hmmm, that would be a useful, easy (I think) security feature: add a GUC
> for failed_logins_allowed.

Why a GUC, can't we just use ALTER ROLE (or ALTER DATABASE)?

Joshua D. Drake


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