PostgreSQL: Credcheck version 2.4 released

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Grenoble - January 30, 2024

PostgreSQL credcheck extension

The credcheck PostgreSQL extension provides few general credential checks, which will be evaluated during the user creation, during the password change and user renaming. By using this extension, we can define a set of rules:

• allow a specific set of credentials
• reject a certain type of credentials
• deny password that can be easily cracked
• enforce use of an expiration date with a minimum of day for a password
• define a password reuse policy
• define the number of authentication failure allowed before a user is banned
• add a delay after all authentication failure

This release is a maintenance release to fix a major issue with the backup of the password history file with pgBackRest and adds an authentication delay feature.

• Add authentication delay feature to be able to add a pause on authentication failure. Setting <...

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