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Re: Rejecting weak passwords

Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>

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From: Jeff Davis <pgsql@j-davis.com>
To: Josh Berkus <josh@agliodbs.com>
Cc: marcin mank <marcin.mank@gmail.com>, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Marko Kreen <markokr@gmail.com>, Albe Laurenz <laurenz.albe@wien.gv.at>, Andrew Dunstan <andrew@dunslane.net>, mlortiz@uci.cu, Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>, pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org
Date: 2009-09-28T23:01:57Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers 
On Mon, 2009-09-28 at 15:52 -0700, Josh Berkus wrote:
> > It takes about 32 hours to brute force all passwords from [a-zA-Z0-9]
> > of up to 8 chars in length.
> 
> That would be a reason to limit the number of failed connection attempts
> from a single source, then, rather than a reason to change the hash
> function.

That doesn't solve the problem of an administrator brute-forcing your password.

Regards,
	Jeff Davis