Re: Rejecting weak passwords - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Rejecting weak passwords
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Msg-id 25830.1256046156@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
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Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net> writes:
> 2009/10/19 Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>:
>> Now we have a user with name equal to password, which no sane security
>> policy will think is a good thing, but the plugin had no chance to
>> prevent it.

> The big difference is that you need to be superuser to change the name
> of a user, but not to change your own password.

True, but the superuser doesn't necessarily know what the user has
set his password to.
        regards, tom lane


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