Re: Rejecting weak passwords - Mailing list pgsql-hackers

From Tom Lane
Subject Re: Rejecting weak passwords
Date
Msg-id 7191.1254232126@sss.pgh.pa.us
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In response to Re: Rejecting weak passwords  ("Albe Laurenz" <laurenz.albe@wien.gv.at>)
Responses Re: Rejecting weak passwords
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"Albe Laurenz" <laurenz.albe@wien.gv.at> writes:
> I thought about it some more, and I think that a password checking
> hook might still be somewhat useful even for MD5-encrypted passwords;
> the function could guess and exclude at least that dreadful
> all-too-frequent case of username = password.

True.  You could probably even run through a moderate-size dictionary
of weak passwords, depending on how long you're willing to make the
user wait.  (CHECK_FOR_INTERRUPTS inside the loop would be polite ;-))
        regards, tom lane


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