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From: Sam <sah@softcardsystems.com>
To: <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: [9fans] factotum/ssh issue
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 09:43:23 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.30.0211110751001.1071-100000@athena> (raw)

Hola,

We finally stopped working long enough to upgrade
to 4e last week and I have to admit, the first
time I was auto-login'd to a remote unix box
after having stored the key in factotum I was
exuberant.

I have a minor nitpick, though.  When I ssh'd into a unix
box for the first time I was prompted to add the key
(not real security, but good enough for me), then I was
asked for the password to the machine.  My trigger happy finger
decided to hit enter, thereby entering a nil password
and failing to authenticate.  Further attempts to
ssh into the machine failed because factotum stored the
incorrect password.  I needed to become accustomed to
key management with factotum anyway, but it still seems improper
to store the password if password authentication fails.

I looked at removing the server key if ssh password authentication
fails, but there doesn't seem to be an rpc mechanism in factotum
to do this.

Cheers,

Sam




             reply	other threads:[~2002-11-11 14:43 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-11 14:43 Sam [this message]
2002-11-11 15:36 Skip Tavakkolian
2002-11-11 16:56 Russ Cox
2002-11-11 17:29 ` Sam

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