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On Wednesday 13 October 2004 20:36, Brian Fahrlander wrote:
Keyfobs. These little USB droplets of cyberspace. How about we,
as
one of the largest collections of Linux people out there, standardize
some software to fit into PAM to do this:
1. Upon insertion, ask for the passphrase a'la local-agent.
2. When validated, use these credentials for everything.
Sounds like a simple idea, but for some reason the powers that be
can't seem to 'get off the pot' and placate hundreds of vendors to
define a standard. Standards are what we're about. Let's make our
own.
As a starting point, you might want to look at pam_usb, "a PAM module that
enables authentication using a USB storage device through DSA
private/public keys."
http://freshmeat.net/projects/pam_usb/
HTH
Jude
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