Credcheck version 2.3 released

Posted on 2023-11-04 by Gilles Darold
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PostgreSQL credcheck extension

The credcheck PostgreSQL extension provides few general credential checks, which will be evaluated during the user creation, during the password change and user renaming. By using this extension, we can define a set of rules:

  • allow a specific set of credentials
  • reject a certain type of credentials
  • deny password that can be easily cracked
  • enforce use of an expiration date with a minimum of day for a password
  • define a password reuse policy
  • define the number of authentication failure allowed before a user is banned

This release is a maintenance release to fix a major issue with the "whitelist" feature.

  • Fix crash when length of the credcheck.whitelist value was > NAMEDATALEN.

Extension upgrade requires a PostgreSQL restart to reload the credcheck library.

Complete list of changes and acknowledgments are available here

Links & Credits

credcheck is an open project under the PostgreSQL license created at MigOps Inc, developped and maintained by Gilles Darold. Any contribution to build a better tool is welcome. You can send your ideas, features requests or patches using the GitHub tools.

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About credcheck

The credcheck extension is an original work of MigOps Inc, Since MigOPs is closed Gilles Darold is the official maintainer. If you need more information please contact me

Documentation at https://github.com/MigOpsRepos/credcheck#readme