Re: Rejecting weak passwords

From: "Albe Laurenz" <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at>
To: "Andrew Dunstan *EXTERN*" <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, "Dave Page" <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>
Cc: "pgsql-hackers" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Rejecting weak passwords
Date: 2009-10-01 13:26:59
Message-ID: D960CB61B694CF459DCFB4B0128514C203937F67@exadv11.host.magwien.gv.at
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Andrew Dunstan wrote:
>>> 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?

I was not sure because no other hooks were documented anywhere else
than in the code.

I could add a paragraph in the "auth-password" section of
client-auth.sgml. Or is there a better place?

I could easily write a simple contrib that adds a check for
username = password if there is interest.

Yours,
Laurenz Albe

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