Re: Rejecting weak passwords

From: Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>
To: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
Cc: Albe Laurenz <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Rejecting weak passwords
Date: 2009-10-01 13:04:30
Message-ID: 4AC4A8DE.3000808@dunslane.net
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Dave Page wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 1:53 PM, Albe Laurenz <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)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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