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From: Ron Johnson <[email protected]>
To: pgsql-general <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: Password complexity/history - credcheck?
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2024 22:38:12 -0400
Message-ID: <CANzqJaBT+LPunvKPX=88s9xPDCOyJnTHK_Tpv8K85mchLnyStA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
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On Sat, Jun 22, 2024 at 7:28 PM Martin Goodson <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Hello.
>
> Recently our security team have wanted to apply password complexity
> checks akin to Oracle's profile mechanism to PostgreSQL, checking that a
> password hasn't been used in x months


There would have to be a pg_catalog table which stores login history.


> etc, has minimum length, x special
> characters and x numeric characters, mixed case etc.
>

Is that an after-the-fact scanner (with all the problems Tom mentioned), or
is it a client-side "check while you're typing in the *new* password"
scanner?


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