Re: Rejecting weak passwords - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Rejecting weak passwords
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Msg-id 21372.1254416824@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Rejecting weak passwords  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
Responses Re: Rejecting weak passwords  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
Re: Rejecting weak passwords  (Kenneth Marshall <ktm@rice.edu>)
Re: Rejecting weak passwords  (Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>)
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Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 17:24, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> I agree with the subsequent comments suggesting a sample module that
>> actually does something useful --- although if it's going to link to
>> external code like cracklib, it probably is going to have to be on
>> pgfoundry not in contrib.

> Why is that? we have plenty of other things in contrib that rely on
> external code, for example the uuid, xml or ssl stuff.

Well, maybe.  I was concerned about availability, portability, license
compatibility, and so on.  The bar's a lot lower for pgfoundry projects
on all those points ...
        regards, tom lane


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