Securid revisited

Damien Miller djm at mindrot.org
Wed Apr 11 11:23:05 EST 2001


On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Markus Friedl wrote:

> On Mon, Apr 09, 2001 at 06:00:07PM -0700, Jay Denebeim wrote:
> > I read the thread on securid back in march.  openssh doesn't support it
> > because it's propriatary, right?  I understand that, however I've still
> > got a problem.
>
> i think we could even add the securid changes to openssh-portable.
> we already support propriatary AIX authentication things.
> however, the securid patch needs some work. is there an up-to-date
> patch?

What might be nicer is a generic kbd-interactive wrapper to allow
OpenSSH to use authentication subprogams which talk on stdio.

You could use the kbd-interactive 'device' field to select which.

-d

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