From owner-freebsd-security Tue Jun 18 22:13:34 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from ren.sasknow.com (ren.sasknow.com [207.195.92.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D91537B40A for ; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 22:13:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (ryan@localhost) by ren.sasknow.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g5J5DQW75845; Tue, 18 Jun 2002 23:13:27 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from ryan@sasknow.com) Date: Tue, 18 Jun 2002 23:13:26 -0600 (CST) From: Ryan Thompson To: Tom Rhodes Cc: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Password security In-Reply-To: <3D103A8A.2000503@pittgoth.com> Message-ID: <20020618230452.X74293-100000@ren.sasknow.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Hi Tom, Tom Rhodes wrote to Ryan Thompson: > Ryan, > > Did you know that ssh supports keys? Yes. :-) The basic problem with public/private key encryption is the security and installation of the private key. I don't expect users to be able to properly secure their private key on insecure systems. > The method described above would also be wonderful to keep users > from accessing the system outside the workplace. Which is one of the main reasons it won't work, given that a fair percentage of our staff access the system from outside the workplace, :-) Thanks, - Ryan -- Ryan Thompson SaskNow Technologies - http://www.sasknow.com 901 1st Avenue North - Saskatoon, SK - S7K 1Y4 Tel: 306-664-3600 Fax: 306-664-3630 Saskatoon Toll-Free: 877-727-5669 (877-SASKNOW) North America To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message