Boston Linux & UNIX was originally founded in 1994 as part of The Boston Computer Society. We meet on the third Wednesday of each month at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, in Building E51.

BLU Discuss list archive


[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

[Discuss] deadmanish login?



On 01/31/2017 08:23 AM, Grant NAPC wrote:
> I agree with Kent, although I do believe you should rotate your 
> password at some reasonable interval. We do enforce password rotation 
> and a mix of alphanumeric/symbols at my company. 

Here is an idea: Don't let users set their own passwords. That way you 
can be sure you aren't being fed that user's Ashley Madison or Yahoo 
password. This won't prevent password reuse in the other direction, 
unfortunately.

"15-ladder-bamboo-sierra" is an easy password to remember and type, yet 
it has 40-bits of entropy. Even if some bizarrely configured sshd 
allowed 1000-attempts per second (which they don't) it would still take 
over 18-years to try half the combinations.

02-alex-smile-metro, 5b-mile-sleep-school, ea-mercy-copy-pizza...

-kb



BLU is a member of BostonUserGroups
BLU is a member of BostonUserGroups
We also thank MIT for the use of their facilities.

Valid HTML 4.01! Valid CSS!



Boston Linux & Unix / webmaster@blu.org