| From: | Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org> |
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| To: | Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>, Mark Mielke <mark(at)mark(dot)mielke(dot)cc>, Kevin Grittner <Kevin(dot)Grittner(at)wicourts(dot)gov>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, Marko Kreen <markokr(at)gmail(dot)com>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, Greg Stark <gsstark(at)mit(dot)edu>, Bruce Momjian <bruce(at)momjian(dot)us>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>, mlortiz <mlortiz(at)uci(dot)cu>, Albe Laurenz <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at> |
| Subject: | Re: Rejecting weak passwords |
| Date: | 2009-10-15 18:02:55 |
| Message-ID: | 937d27e10910151102l56f9b76dmebd866f3e5edd4f5@mail.gmail.com |
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On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 6:55 PM, Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> wrote:
> OK, so we're in violent agreement here?
From a technical perspective I think we have been for a while. Though
clearly some people disagree with my assertion that putting any form
of policy enforcement in the client is not actually 'enforcement'. I
wonder how many of those folks would implement their website's data
sanitisation in the browser only - but I digress... :-)
> Except for figuring out how
> an API for checking the flag? Could they just try it with MD5 first
> and then fall back if that say "no MD5"?
That's what I was trying to avoid, as the architecture of pgAdmin
makes that really hard. I know that's not PG's problem, but forcing a
retry is quite an ugly solution anyway, so I was hoping we could come
up with something better.
I suppose in the worst case, I could just have pgAdmin throw the
error, and then add a per-server option to disable password hashing in
the relevant places, but I'd far rather have that automated so it
can't be set unnecessarily.
--
Dave Page
EnterpriseDB UK: http://www.enterprisedb.com
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