No interest in partial auth?

Markus Friedl markus at openbsd.org
Tue Aug 26 05:55:25 EST 2003


On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 12:16:43PM -0400, Dmitry Berezin wrote:
> I just want to add that I agree with Erik about having a need for 
> partial authentication in OpenSSH. We use SecurID cards in addition to 
> password authentication for all users and the way this has to be setup 
> breaks scp and sftp since we have to use interactive shell (sdshell) for 
> SecurID authentication. Now, there is a patch for OpenSSH that enables 
> support for SecurID, but then I'd have to choose between password and 
> SecurID authentication, not both. Indeed, commercial versions of SSH 
> allow to specify a list of valid auth methods and how many of them must 

this feature but be useful, but the implementation has to be simple.




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