-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFBbfavF0ii4UPWAS0RAv7xAJ4/MEhIkeZucaGKX/ITUMi9YlWmfACeMXR2 lzo2pl67x0HG/fwa+FFAw8A= =Nzu8 -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
