MySQL Password Complexity

This is a patch to MySQL that will include two new configuration options: pass-min-length and pass-complexity. When setting a password they will be used to determin if the password complies with the specified password policy.

pass-min-length — Password must be at least this long. Default 8.
pass-complexity — Password must include characters upto 4 character sets (lower-case, upper-case, numeric, other). Default 3.

7 Responses to “MySQL Password Complexity”

Can you help me and let know what lang this patch is written so that I could complile and check out !

Thx

Suresh said this on May 9, 2008 at 9:39 pm | Reply
Suresh, this patch is written in the same language as MySQL, C (with English resource strings).

Michael Eddington said this on May 23, 2008 at 9:55 am | Reply
How do you install the patch?

Ahmed Tsaggaer said this on September 10, 2008 at 2:38 pm | Reply
After downloading the source code use the unix “patch” command (also comes with cygwin for windows) to apply the patch then compile MySQL. Sadly there is no way to add to an already compiled MySQL install.

Michael Eddington said this on July 11, 2009 at 6:47 am | Reply
hi,

Can you please provide me how can we configure this patch…

ratheesh said this on July 26, 2009 at 5:47 pm | Reply
Do you have a working patch for version 5.1.34?

Manny said this on August 10, 2009 at 2:04 am | Reply
ratheesh – You can apply the patch to the MySQL source (read up in the comments for how). After that you will have two new configuration parameters that can be set in the MySQL configuration file.

Michael Eddington said this on September 10, 2009 at 2:53 pm | Reply