Re: Rejecting weak passwords - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Andrew Dunstan
Subject Re: Rejecting weak passwords
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Msg-id 4AD5ECC3.9000708@dunslane.net
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In response to Re: Rejecting weak passwords  (Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>)
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Tom Lane wrote:
> Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> writes:
>   
>> I would suggest that in addition to the proposed plugin, we add an
>> suset GUC (defaulting to OFF) which rejects any use of WITH ENCRYPTED
>> PASSWORD to ensure that the password complexity can be checked when
>> roles are created or modified.
>>     
>
> That's going to stop us from being beat up?  A GUC that forcibly
> *weakens* security?  I can't see it.
>
> If you're really intent on making that happen, you can have your
> password checker plugin reject crypted passwords; we don't need
> such a questionable rule in core.
>
>             
>   

And you could have the plugin do that depending on a custom GUC.

cheers

andrew


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