Securid revisited

Damien Miller djm at mindrot.org
Wed Apr 11 11:25:15 EST 2001


On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, Damien Miller wrote:

> > 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.

Ahh, BSD AUTH does this :)

Does anyone want to port it to other systems? It would make supporting
things like securid and cryptocard very easy.

-d

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