passwordcheck.c

/*-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 *
 * passwordcheck.c
 *
 *
 * Copyright (c) 2009-2017, PostgreSQL Global Development Group
 *
 * Author: Laurenz Albe <laurenz.albe@wien.gv.at>
 *
 * IDENTIFICATION
 *      contrib/passwordcheck/passwordcheck.c
 *
 *-------------------------------------------------------------------------
 */
#include "postgres.h"

#include <ctype.h>

#ifdef USE_CRACKLIB
#include <crack.h>
#endif

#include "commands/user.h"
#include "libpq/crypt.h"
#include "fmgr.h"

PG_MODULE_MAGIC;

/* passwords shorter than this will be rejected */
#define MIN_PWD_LENGTH 8

extern void _PG_init(void);

/*
 * check_password
 *
 * performs checks on an encrypted or unencrypted password
 * ereport's if not acceptable
 *
 * username: name of role being created or changed
 * password: new password (possibly already encrypted)
 * password_type: PASSWORD_TYPE_* code, to indicate if the password is
 *            in plaintext or encrypted form.
 * validuntil_time: password expiration time, as a timestamptz Datum
 * validuntil_null: true if password expiration time is NULL
 *
 * This sample implementation doesn't pay any attention to the password
 * expiration time, but you might wish to insist that it be non-null and
 * not too far in the future.
 */
static void
check_password(const char *username,
               const char *shadow_pass,
               PasswordType password_type,
               Datum validuntil_time,
               bool validuntil_null)
{
    if (password_type != PASSWORD_TYPE_PLAINTEXT)
    {
        /*
         * Unfortunately we cannot perform exhaustive checks on encrypted
         * passwords - we are restricted to guessing. (Alternatively, we could
         * insist on the password being presented non-encrypted, but that has
         * its own security disadvantages.)
         *
         * We only check for username = password.
         */
        char       *logdetail;

        if (plain_crypt_verify(username, shadow_pass, username, &logdetail) == STATUS_OK)
            ereport(ERROR,
                    (errcode(ERRCODE_INVALID_PARAMETER_VALUE),
                     errmsg("password must not contain user name")));
    }
    else
    {
        /*
         * For unencrypted passwords we can perform better checks
         */
        const char *password = shadow_pass;
        int            pwdlen = strlen(password);
        int            i;
        bool        pwd_has_letter,
                    pwd_has_nonletter;

        /* enforce minimum length */
        if (pwdlen < MIN_PWD_LENGTH)
            ereport(ERROR,
                    (errcode(ERRCODE_INVALID_PARAMETER_VALUE),
                     errmsg("password is too short")));

        /* check if the password contains the username */
        if (strstr(password, username))
            ereport(ERROR,
                    (errcode(ERRCODE_INVALID_PARAMETER_VALUE),
                     errmsg("password must not contain user name")));

        /* check if the password contains both letters and non-letters */
        pwd_has_letter = false;
        pwd_has_nonletter = false;
        for (i = 0; i < pwdlen; i++)
        {
            /*
             * isalpha() does not work for multibyte encodings but let's
             * consider non-ASCII characters non-letters
             */
            if (isalpha((unsigned char) password[i]))
                pwd_has_letter = true;
            else
                pwd_has_nonletter = true;
        }
        if (!pwd_has_letter || !pwd_has_nonletter)
            ereport(ERROR,
                    (errcode(ERRCODE_INVALID_PARAMETER_VALUE),
                     errmsg("password must contain both letters and nonletters")));

#ifdef USE_CRACKLIB
        /* call cracklib to check password */
        if (FascistCheck(password, CRACKLIB_DICTPATH))
            ereport(ERROR,
                    (errcode(ERRCODE_INVALID_PARAMETER_VALUE),
                     errmsg("password is easily cracked")));
#endif
    }

    /* all checks passed, password is ok */
}

/*
 * Module initialization function
 */
void
_PG_init(void)
{
    /* activate password checks when the module is loaded */
    check_password_hook = check_password;
}