Thank you Sergei. I kind of expected that. Was hoping though to get it in upstream for our environment (one can dream!). Colin wanted to know if I got it backported, so I did.

I'll chalk it up to a good exercise :) It would be nice to get us to MariaDB 10 but we have a big commitment to 5.5 right now.

So in this exercise.. : 1) Navigate source code and repos in Git and Bazaar 2) Setup eclipse and cmake to navigate and build MariaDB (I found cscope to be really a powerful tool for getting around code and preferred it over eclipse many times) 3) used gdb to attach and examine values 4) Debug yacc 5) run mysql-test

Thank again,

Adam

On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 2:38 AM, Sergei Golubchik <serg@mariadb.org> wrote:

Hi, Adam!

On Apr 27, Adam Scott wrote:
> It's taken some time, but I have backported the simple_password_check
> plugin and the password api to MariaDB 5.5 The mysql-test is
> succeeding on all but the test of the strict_password_validation
> variable.
>
> My question is, should a pure backport include support for
> strict_password_validation variable (
> https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/server-system-variables/#strict_password_validation)
> ? I suspect yes, but wanted to ask to start a further discussion: namely
> if I submit this patch will it be included in future MariaDB 5.5 releases?

I believe it's unlikely. If we wanted this feature in 5.5, it would've
been implemented in 5.5 in the first place.

But 5.5 is already GA, it was GA for quite a while. We don't add new
feature to GA versions, that's why password validation was added to
10.1.

I think that if you'll keep your own version of 5.5 + password
validation and use that in your environment - it should not require much
efforts to maintain. 5.5 code base is very stable at the moment, changes
are few and sql_acl.cc almost doesn't change at all. And then you can
skip 10.0 and upgrade directly to 10.1 one day :)

Regards,
Sergei