[PATCH] tis authserv support

Mark D. Roth roth+openssh at feep.net
Fri Dec 8 06:33:12 EST 2000


On Thu Dec 07 13:20 2000 -0600, Mark D. Roth wrote:
> On Thu Dec 07 18:57 2000 +0100, Balazs Scheidler wrote:
> > We at BalaBit IT Security Ltd developed a patch against openssh 2.3.0p1 to
> > support TIS authserv authentication. TIS authserv uses a simple protocol,
> > and supports CryptoCard, SKey, password etc. authentication.
> > 
> > The commercial versions of SSH support this protocol, OpenSSH implemented
> > SKey on its own using the protocol primitives originally invented for TIS
> > authentication.
> > 
> > Our patch is an alternative to S/Key support in OpenSSH, the two cannot be
> > compiled in at the same time.
> 
> I already submitted a patch to do this, but the OpenSSH folks declined
> to include it.  I've attached my patch, which I will begin
> distributing from a publicly-accessible website sometime next week.
> 
> If there's anything that your patch does that mine does not, please
> feel free to send me the changes.  IMHO, it's to everyone's benefit to
> have only a single version of this patch floating around.

Ugh.  It looks like the patch was too big to be sent over the list.
I've put it up at:

   http://www-dev.cso.uiuc.edu/openssh/

I'll finish cleaning up the webpage and adding documentation when I
get back from LISA next week.

-- 
Mark D. Roth <roth at feep.net>
http://www.feep.net/~roth/





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