Re: Rejecting weak passwords

From: Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us>
To: Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com>
Cc: Dave Page <dpage(at)pgadmin(dot)org>, Marko Kreen <markokr(at)gmail(dot)com>, Albe Laurenz <laurenz(dot)albe(at)wien(dot)gv(dot)at>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew(at)dunslane(dot)net>, mlortiz <mlortiz(at)uci(dot)cu>, Magnus Hagander <magnus(at)hagander(dot)net>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Rejecting weak passwords
Date: 2009-10-14 17:48:45
Message-ID: 22606.1255542525@sss.pgh.pa.us
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Robert Haas <robertmhaas(at)gmail(dot)com> writes:
> On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 12:25 PM, Tom Lane <tgl(at)sss(dot)pgh(dot)pa(dot)us> wrote:
>> Let's see you do that (hint: "CREATD USER ... PASSWORD" is going to
>> throw a syntax error before you realize there's anything there that
>> might need to be protected).

> It seems to me incredibly rare for anyone to issue a manual CREATE
> USER command with an encrypted password. And if it is generated by a
> script, it will presumably not have a trivial typographical error.

Uh, this discussion was about cleartext passwords?

regards, tom lane

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