On Thu, 14 Oct 2004 04:46:43 +0100, Jude <fedora@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > -----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/ Sorry to be late on this thread, but I'm interested in using pam_usb with FC 2 and 3 and was wondering if anyone has it working? The Quickstart documentation seems pretty straight forward, but I'm a little reluctant to try it as I've never done anything with PAM before. Can anyone offer any advice on using pam_usb? Thanks, Kevin -- Kevin Old kevinold@xxxxxxxxx
