Serg's a machine!

Thanks for getting back. The constraint for us is we are on RHEL SCL which provides us MariaDB 5.5.

The extension will get us 90% there for our purposes. For MDEV-6554 you may want to add the ability to prevent 3 or more repeating characters and not match the account id.

I'll see if I can't grab the code and get it to compile for 5.5 unless that's in the works maybe?

Thanks for getting back to me with the good details. Keep up the good work!

Thanks

Adam C. Scott

On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 9:16 AM, Colin Charles <colin@mariadb.org> wrote:

Hi!

On 23 Jan 2015, at 00:03, Adam Scott <adam.c.scott@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I noticed MySQL 5.6 has a validate_password plugin. Since it's open-source, can we add it to MariaDB 5.5. Or is that bad form, a hot potato, etc.?
>
> We need the features of this plugin in our environment, and the PAM integration is looking not a good "fit" (though it's working great).
>
> (I'm trying to get it to compile in right now, but it's having issues with the includes so far...working on it).
>

So Serg has been working on a validate_password plugin that isn't based on 5.5/5.6 - he's doing it a different way from what I gather

See: https://mariadb.atlassian.net/browse/MDEV-5442

The bonus of how its done now, is that it's here:
https://mariadb.atlassian.net/browse/MDEV-6431

It is shipping in 10.1.2 (don't use this in production please) -- see https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/documentation/plugins/simple_password_check/

Do you think that will do for you?

An extension to this is tentatively scheduled for 10.2, but this may change if there are enough requests/time to do it -- https://mariadb.atlassian.net/browse/MDEV-6554

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