From owner-freebsd-security Mon Dec 21 11:16:15 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA07355 for freebsd-security-outgoing; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 11:16:15 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from xylan.com (postal.xylan.com [208.8.0.248]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA07350 for ; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 11:16:11 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from wes@softweyr.com) Received: from mailhub.xylan.com by xylan.com (8.8.7/SMI-SVR4 (xylan-mgw 2.2 [OUT])) id LAA25037; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 11:15:18 -0800 (PST) Received: from utah.XYLAN.COM by mailhub.xylan.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (mailhub 2.1 [HUB])) id LAA24169; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 11:15:17 -0800 Received: from softweyr.com by utah.XYLAN.COM (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4 (xylan utah [SPOOL])) id MAA25785; Mon, 21 Dec 1998 12:15:16 -0700 Message-ID: <367E9E44.ADBB400A@softweyr.com> Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1998 12:15:16 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.5 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 2.2.7-RELEASE i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav CC: Gregory Sutter , security@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: preventing single user login w/o password References: <199812211324.IAA27266@cc942873-a.ewndsr1.nj.home.com> <19981221085355.A10360@orcrist.mediacity.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > > Gregory Sutter writes: > > > > Okay, it's 8:45 AM, and I'm still tired, but the first thing that came > > into my mind was an actual ring that one wears upon a finger. Then I > > wondered about using that as a physical security key. It would be > > easy to put a small chip or 2 in a ring; the reader could be sitting > > in a 5.25" slot until cases are specially built for the device, which > > would be plugged into the motherboard and prevent all input or > > somesuch mechanism until the chip is detected. > > Congratulations on your new invention! Though I'm afraid it's already > patented by Sun Microsystems :) Actually it is patented by Dallas Semiconductor, who makes them. Only the Java techonology is owned by Sun. See http://www.ibutton.com/ for more info. And yes, these little things are *very* cool. -- Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket? Wes Peters +1.801.915.2061 Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message