Re: Rejecting weak passwords

From: Euler Taveira de Oliveira <euler(at)timbira(dot)com>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, 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 17:07:48
Message-ID: 4AC4E1E4.1040909@timbira.com
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Magnus Hagander escreveu:
> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 17:24, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> writes:
>>> How will people know how to use it, or that it's even there without at
>>> least a note in the docs somewhere?
>> We don't normally document function hooks anywhere but the source code.
>> That's one of the things that makes them low overhead ;-)
>>
>> 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.
>
Because cracklib is GPL'ed.

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