Re: Rejecting weak passwords - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: Rejecting weak passwords
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Msg-id 4AC4A8DE.3000808@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: Rejecting weak passwords  (Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>)
Responses Re: Rejecting weak passwords  ("Albe Laurenz" <laurenz.albe@wien.gv.at>)
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Dave Page wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Albe Laurenz <laurenz.albe@wien.gv.at> wrote:
>   
>> In the discussion following
>> http://archives.postgresql.org/pgsql-hackers/2009-09/msg01766.php
>> the consensus was that a hook that allows you to implement
>> a password checking routine as a module "would not hurt".
>>
>> So here's the patch.
>> I don't think there is documentation required;
>> correct me if I am wrong.
>>     
>
> How will people know how to use it, or that it's even there without at
> least a note in the docs somewhere?
>
>   

I'd prefer to have an example as a contrib module, as well as docs. 
Quite apart from anything else, how the heck would we test it without 
such a thing?

cheers

andrew


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