Hi All,
As one who is fairly new (within the last two months) to Postgre, I've
looked through the Archives for this list a bit and have seen this issue
addressed a number of times, but no strong solutions posted. Has anybody
devised a good/secure way of allowing users to control their own passwo
Hi postgres gurus:
I would like to set up a facility that enforces password changes for roles
After a predefined period (30 days for instance) when logging into psql
Or, at the very least, send an email out to notify that your current
Password period is about to expire. Preferably, I'd like to
I don't know about secure but what I've done is linked the pg_passwd file to
/etc/passwd and then people remote ODBC user can change their database
password via the passwd command (or yppasswd). I've got a RH 5.0 system
running without shadowed password but with NIS. I'm curious what people think
Hmm... that doesn't work on my system because my system's logon/passwd
commands use a different encryption altorhythm than Postgres. I wonder if
there is a way to change one or the other's scheme. Did you have to hack
anything or did it work "out-of-the-box"?
My Linux kernel is 2.0.34 and my di
On 8/5/10 12:58 PM, Mark Steben wrote:
I would like to set up a facility that enforces password changes for roles
After a predefined period (30 days for instance) when logging into psql
Or, at the very least, send an email out to notify that your current
Password period is about to expire. Prefe
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Craig James wrote:
> On 8/5/10 12:58 PM, Mark Steben wrote:
>>
>> I would like to set up a facility that enforces password changes for roles
>> After a predefined period (30 days for instance) when logging into psql
>> Or, at the very least, send an email out to not
"Mark Steben" writes:
> I would like to set up a facility that enforces password changes for roles
> After a predefined period (30 days for instance) when logging into psql
> Or, at the very least, send an email out to notify that your current
> Password period is about to expire.
Usually we sug
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 2:27 PM, Scott Marlowe wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Craig James
> wrote:
>> On 8/5/10 12:58 PM, Mark Steben wrote:
>>>
>>> I would like to set up a facility that enforces password changes for roles
>>> After a predefined period (30 days for instance) when loggi
Scott Marlowe writes:
> On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Craig James
> wrote:
>> A better solution is to implement a password-strength algorithm and require
>> people to select decent passwords to begin with.
> Exactly. If you allow simpler passwords that have to be changed you
> get things lik
Also, for reference:
http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/cormac/
Specifically:
http://research.microsoft.com/users/cormac/papers/2009/SoLongAndNoThanks.pdf
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Mark,
You could use LDAP to? that?
I use LDAP + apache
[]´s
Victor Hugo
2010/8/5 Tom Lane :
> "Mark Steben" writes:
>> I would like to set up a facility that enforces password changes for roles
>> After a predefined period (30 days for instance) when logging into psql
>> Or, at the very leas
Correcting I use LDAP + postgresql
2010/8/5 Victor Hugo :
> Mark,
>
> You could use LDAP to? that?
>
> I use LDAP + apache
>
> []´s
> Victor Hugo
>
>
>
> 2010/8/5 Tom Lane :
>> "Mark Steben" writes:
>>> I would like to set up a facility that enforces password changes for roles
>>> After a pre
Mark,
Look into kerberos. You will have to recompile your server to use it.
Bob Lunney
--- On Thu, 8/5/10, Mark Steben wrote:
> From: Mark Steben
> Subject: [ADMIN] password administration
> To: pgsql-admin@postgresql.org
> Date: Thursday, August 5, 2010, 3:58 PM
>
>
&
On 05.08.2010 22:54, Tom Lane wrote:
> Scott Marlowe writes:
>
>> On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Craig James
>> wrote:
>>
>>> A better solution is to implement a password-strength algorithm and require
>>> people to select decent passwords to begin with.
>>>
>
>> Exactly. If
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