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Re: authentication method shell variable?

Subject: Re: authentication method shell variable?
Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 10:52:26 -0400
On Sun, Aug 27, 2006 at 07:28:06AM -0400, Jaqui Greenlees wrote:
In a recent discussion about secure ssh use the idea
of having ssh export the authentication method as a
shll variable. The idea being to limit su access to
only those who have used a public / private key pair
for authentication.

Anyone who was aware of this method of "authenticating" su could just
manually set the environment variable to the right value, and then
could use su.  This method does not provide any practical measure of
additional protection from undesired users using su, even if it were
possible...

What you really need is a PAM module to make su use RSA auth directly,
or something like that.

-- 
Derek D. Martin
http://www.pizzashack.org/
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