[Gllug] USB Securikey

Adrian McMenamin adrian at mcmen.demon.co.uk
Mon Jul 21 19:47:36 UTC 2003


On Monday 21 July 2003 18:12, Richard Jones wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 21, 2003 at 04:15:44PM +0100, Tethys wrote:
> > We initially looked at SecureID, but in the end, the solution we
> > went with was a 20 line shell script I wrote instead :-) Basically,
> > your login shell is now a script that generated a random one time
> > password. This is then sent to your mobile phone via SMS, and if
> > you can't type in the second password, you don't get in.
>
> A really cool idea. Is it in releasable form? Can you put up a web
> page about how you did it?
>
Can't this just be beaten by using a floppy boot disk or messing with GRUB 
(dunno about LILO)?


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