passwordcheck_cracklib

Overview

MIXED 3rd Party Extension: passwordcheck : Strengthen PostgreSQL user password checks with cracklib

Information

• Extension ID: 7000
• Extension Name: passwordcheck_cracklib
• Package Name: passwordcheck
• Category: SEC
• License: LGPLv2
• Website: https://github.com/devrimgunduz/passwordcheck_cracklib
• Language: C
• Extra Tags: N/A
• Comment: N/A

Metadata

• Latest Version: 3.1.0
• Postgres Support: 17,16,15,14,13
• Need Load: Explicit Loading Required
• Need DDL: Dd not need CREATE EXTENSION DDL
• Relocatable: Unknown
• Trusted: Untrusted, Require Superuser to Create
• Schemas: N/A
• Requires: N/A

RPM / DEB

• RPM Repo: PGDG
• RPM Name: passwordcheck_cracklib_$v*
• RPM Ver : 3.1.0
• RPM Deps: N/A
• DEB Repo: PIGSTY
• DEB Name: postgresql-$v-passwordcheck-cracklib
• DEB Ver : 3.1.0
• DEB Deps: N/A

Availability

Installation

Install passwordcheck_cracklib via the pig CLI tool:

pig ext install passwordcheck; 	# Extension Name
pig ext install passwordcheck_cracklib; 	# normalized package name

Install passwordcheck via Pigsty playbook:

./pgsql.yml -t pg_extension -e '{"pg_extensions": ["passwordcheck"]}' # -l <cls>

Install passwordcheck RPM from YUM repo directly:

dnf install passwordcheck_cracklib_17*;
dnf install passwordcheck_cracklib_16*;
dnf install passwordcheck_cracklib_15*;
dnf install passwordcheck_cracklib_14*;
dnf install passwordcheck_cracklib_13*;

Install passwordcheck DEB from APT repo directly:

apt install postgresql-17-passwordcheck-cracklib;
apt install postgresql-16-passwordcheck-cracklib;
apt install postgresql-15-passwordcheck-cracklib;
apt install postgresql-14-passwordcheck-cracklib;
apt install postgresql-13-passwordcheck-cracklib;

Extension passwordcheck_cracklib has to be loaded via shared_preload_libraries

shared_preload_libraries = 'passwordcheck_cracklib'; # add to pg cluster config

Extension %s does not need CREATE EXTENSION command