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On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 08:41:20PM +0200, Daniel Struck wrote: |
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> Are there any efforts made to provide gentoo with alternative way of |
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> logging in? |
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[...] |
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> Although it is important to harden the software basis, to provide a secure |
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> environment, wouldn't it also be important to also provide a safer means of |
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> authenticating the users? |
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Do you mean any other authentification than PAM? With PAM, you can use |
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dongles, smartcards, ... or time-based authentification etc. |
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You can also have the authentification-information be stored in an LDAP (or |
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purely in a database) and authentificate against it using PAM. |
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Wkr, |
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Sven Vermeulen |
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Thanks to DRM, you know that something has been built in environment of |
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unspecified degree of security, from source you cannot check, written by |
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programmers you don't know, released after passing QA of unknown quality and |
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which is released under a license that disclaims any responsibility... |
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