From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Nov 6 2:24:29 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DC7237B401 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 02:24:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from highland.isltd.insignia.com (highland.isltd.insignia.com [195.74.141.1]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3AA9243E6E for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 02:24:27 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from Jim.Hatfield@insignia.com) Received: from scorpio.isltd.insignia.com (scorpio.isltd.insignia.com [172.16.1.1]) by highland.isltd.insignia.com (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gA6AOQkE052564 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 10:24:26 GMT (envelope-from Jim.Hatfield@insignia.com) Received: from exchange-uk.isltd.insignia.com (exchange-uk [172.16.1.6]) by scorpio.isltd.insignia.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id gA6AOQ401066 for ; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 10:24:26 GMT Received: by exchange-uk.isltd.insignia.com with Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) id <3949DQLG>; Wed, 6 Nov 2002 10:24:25 -0000 Message-ID: <2F03DF3DDE57D411AFF4009027B8C3670289D4A5@exchange-uk.isltd.insignia.com> From: "local.freebsd.questions" To: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: Re: Help with s/key Date: Wed, 6 Nov 2002 10:24:19 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: text/plain X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.24 (www . roaringpenguin . com / mimedefang) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Wed, 6 Nov 2002 05:42:07 -0000 , wash@wananchi.com (Odhiambo Washington) wrote: > >Sincerely, I don't understand this stuff. I've tried to read it. >Is anyone willing to tell me the advantages of s/key and whether I should use >it? Depends how you rate security over convenience. I have used it often for FTP accounts. The benefit is that passwords are never re-used and knowledge of a password can't be used to determine future ones. The downside is that people find it a pain to have a sheet of passwords and strike them out one at a time, or use an s/key calculator. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message