passwordcheck

checks user passwords and reject weak password

Overview

ID	Extension	Package	Version	Category	License	Language
7990	passwordcheck	passwordcheck	`-`	SEC	PostgreSQL	C

Attribute	Has Binary	Has Library	Need Load	Has DDL	Relocatable	Trusted
--sL---	No	Yes	Yes	No	no	no

Relationships
See Also	pg_auth_mon credcheck pgaudit login_hook auth_delay set_user sepgsql

PG18	PG17	PG16	PG15	PG14	PG13
-	-	-	-	-	-

This is a built-in contrib extension ship with the PostgreSQL kernel

shared_preload_libraries = 'passwordcheck';  -- comma-separated list

Create this extension with:

CREATE EXTENSION passwordcheck;

Last updated on 2025-10-28