Re: Rejecting weak passwords

2009/9/28 Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>:
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> Ing. Marcos L. Ortí­z Valmaseda wrote:
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>>> My vote is for #3, if anything.
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>> You have to analyze all points before to do this. I vote too for the third option, but you have to be clear that how do you ´ll check the weakness of the password:
>> 1- For example: the length should be greater that 6 char..
>> 2- The password should be have  a combination fo numbers, letters and others dots
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>> Things like that you have to think very well, or to do a question to the list asking which are the best options.
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>> I think the same about the PAM and LDAP auth
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> I'm voting for #3 precisely so postgres doesn't have to think about it, and the module author will do all the work implementing whatever rules they want to enforce.

That makes a lot of sense. Then we could perhaps ship a cracklib2
provider in contrib.

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