[Discuss] deadmanish login?

[kentborg at borg.org (Kent Borg)]

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