Thank you Sergei. I kind of expected that. Was hoping though to get it in upstream for our environment (one can dream!). Colin wanted to know if I got it backported, so I did.
I'll chalk it up to a good exercise :) It would be nice to get us to MariaDB 10 but we have a big commitment to 5.5 right now. So in this exercise.. : 1) Navigate source code and repos in Git and Bazaar 2) Setup eclipse and cmake to navigate and build MariaDB (I found cscope to be really a powerful tool for getting around code and preferred it over eclipse many times) 3) used gdb to attach and examine values 4) Debug yacc 5) run mysql-test Thank again, Adam On Thu, Apr 30, 2015 at 2:38 AM, Sergei Golubchik <s...@mariadb.org> wrote: > 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 > >
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