Hi, Adam! On Apr 27, Adam Scott wrote: > It's taken some time, but I have backported the simple_password_check > plugin and the password api to MariaDB 5.5 The mysql-test is > succeeding on all but the test of the strict_password_validation > variable. > > My question is, should a pure backport include support for > strict_password_validation variable ( > https://mariadb.com/kb/en/mariadb/server-system-variables/#strict_password_validation) > ? I suspect yes, but wanted to ask to start a further discussion: namely > if I submit this patch will it be included in future MariaDB 5.5 releases?
I believe it's unlikely. If we wanted this feature in 5.5, it would've been implemented in 5.5 in the first place. But 5.5 is already GA, it was GA for quite a while. We don't add new feature to GA versions, that's why password validation was added to 10.1. I think that if you'll keep your own version of 5.5 + password validation and use that in your environment - it should not require much efforts to maintain. 5.5 code base is very stable at the moment, changes are few and sql_acl.cc almost doesn't change at all. And then you can skip 10.0 and upgrade directly to 10.1 one day :) Regards, Sergei _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~maria-discuss Post to : maria-discuss@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~maria-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
