Re: Rejecting weak passwords - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Euler Taveira de Oliveira
Subject Re: Rejecting weak passwords
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Msg-id 4AC4E1E4.1040909@timbira.com
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In response to Re: Rejecting weak passwords  (Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>)
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Magnus Hagander escreveu:
> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 17:24, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> writes:
>>> How will people know how to use it, or that it's even there without at
>>> least a note in the docs somewhere?
>> We don't normally document function hooks anywhere but the source code.
>> That's one of the things that makes them low overhead ;-)
>>
>> 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.
> 
Because cracklib is GPL'ed.


--  Euler Taveira de Oliveira http://www.timbira.com/


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