From: Chris Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>
To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
Subject: Re: password strength verification
Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2008 13:04:28 -0500
Message-ID: <8763lhcqc3.fsf@dba2.int.libertyrms.com> (raw)
References: <126094.75269.qm@web35904.mail.mud.yahoo.com>
rexmabry@yahoo.com (Rex Mabry) writes:
> If a company requires a password to be a combination of letters,
> numbers and special characters. Oracle has a profile setting with a
> password verify function that can be used to specify a function
> that can do this. Does postgres have a setting or function to
> verify and enforce a password policy? I am very familiar with
> pg_hba.conf, but I am looking specifically at passwords.
If I were wanting to enforce this, I think I'd do it via PAM.
That is, I would configure PostgreSQL to use the PAM service (METHOD =
"pam", OPTION = name of PAM service), and configure these requirements
into the PAM service.
There are several alternative indirections available:
- LDAP authentication would allow you to manage password policy
in the LDAP instance, quite independent of PostgreSQL.
- krb5 indicates use of Kerberos, which would, again, keep passwords
out of PostgreSQL altogether.
With all of these options being readily available for using
centralized authorization management and policy, I don't see any
particular value in duplicating low level security policy mechanisms
in PostgreSQL.
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