Re: Rejecting weak passwords

Euler Taveira <euler@timbira.com>

From: Euler Taveira de Oliveira <euler@timbira.com>
To: Magnus Hagander <magnus@hagander.net>
Cc: Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us>, Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org>, Albe Laurenz <laurenz.albe@wien.gv.at>, pgsql-hackers <pgsql-hackers@postgresql.org>
Date: 2009-10-01T17:07:48Z
Lists: pgsql-hackers
Magnus Hagander escreveu:
> On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 17:24, Tom Lane <tgl@sss.pgh.pa.us> wrote:
>> Dave Page <dpage@pgadmin.org> writes:
>>> How will people know how to use it, or that it's even there without at
>>> least a note in the docs somewhere?
>> We don't normally document function hooks anywhere but the source code.
>> That's one of the things that makes them low overhead ;-)
>>
>> I agree with the subsequent comments suggesting a sample module that
>> actually does something useful --- although if it's going to link to
>> external code like cracklib, it probably is going to have to be on
>> pgfoundry not in contrib.
> 
> Why is that? we have plenty of other things in contrib that rely on
> external code, for example the uuid, xml or ssl stuff.
> 
Because cracklib is GPL'ed.


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