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PostgreSQL 10 Administration Cookbook - Fourth Edition
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PostgreSQL 10 Administration Cookbook - Fourth Edition

by Simon Riggs, Gianni Ciolli
May 2018
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
576 pages
30h 25m
English
Packt Publishing
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The password_encryption parameter decides how the ALTER USER statement will encrypt the password. This should be set globally in the postgresql.conf file.

Having the passwords encrypted in the database is just half of the equation. The bigger problem is making sure that users actually use passwords that are hard to guess that is, passwords such as password, secret, or test are out, and most common words are not good passwords either.

If you don't trust your users to select strong passwords, you can write a wrapper application that checks the password strength and make them use that when changing passwords. A contrib module lets you do this for a limited set of cases (the password is sent from client to server in plain text). ...

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