Re: Rejecting weak passwords

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Cc: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, 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 17:07:04
Message-ID: 21372.1254416824@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net> writes:
> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 17:24, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> 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.

Well, maybe. I was concerned about availability, portability, license
compatibility, and so on. The bar's a lot lower for pgfoundry projects
on all those points ...

regards, tom lane

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