[Gllug] USB Securikey

Nix nix at esperi.demon.co.uk
Fri Jul 25 07:51:16 UTC 2003


On Mon, 21 Jul 2003, Tethys yowled:
> 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.

This is surely a job for a tiny little PAM module, not for a wrapper
login shell (yuck! you have to repeat all the /etc/shells validation,
you break chsh, and so on).

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