passing X11 authentication and authenticated home directories

Daniel Kahn Gillmor dkg at fifthhorseman.net
Wed Apr 8 09:25:50 EST 2009


On 04/07/2009 05:09 PM, James Ralston wrote:
> Longer-term, though, a better solution would be provide more
> flexibility in how authentication mechanisms are required/specified.
> For example, I would like to be able to say:
> 
>     gssapi-with-mic || ( publickey && (keyboard-interactive || password))
> 
> In English: to authenticate, gssapi-with-mic auth is sufficient.
> Otherwise, publickey auth *AND* one of either (keyboard-interactive,
> password) auth is sufficient.

You might be interested in the commentary and patches associated with
bug 983, tracking the idea of required authentication steps:

  https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=983

Regards,
	--dkg

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