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Hi list. |
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I have for some time now been trying to avoid using passwords as much as |
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possible, preferring encryption keys instead (e.g. public private key |
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encryption like gpg and such). I have also started using longer |
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randomised passwords I shouldn't remember; storing them instead in a |
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safe place (e.g. encrypted memory card or flashdisk). |
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So when setting up a new Gentoo machine today and being about to enter a |
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new root password I found myself wanting a way of doing authentication |
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through some other means than remembering a password, like gpg or |
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certificates. Does this exist; and if anyone has had experience with it, |
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is it worth the hassle? And if this is a bad way of doing root |
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authentication, why/how? |
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Also the machine in question will have more than one user and a subset |
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of the users shall have access to the root account. |
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- -- |
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Thomas Sigurdsen |
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browniehive.net |
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