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An update on the Fedora August 2008 intrusion

An update on the Fedora August 2008 intrusion

Posted Mar 30, 2009 19:28 UTC (Mon) by drag (subscriber, #31333)
In reply to: An update on the Fedora August 2008 intrusion by melevittfl
Parent article: An update on the Fedora August 2008 intrusion

> I know this is probably a silly question, but would there be any way to modify SSH to enforce using passwords on the public keys rather than rely on people following a policy document?

Nope.

> I can't imagine any way to do this with 100% effectiveness because you'd have to trust the client side to tell you the truth and a determined policy violator could simply build a custom ssh client that would lie to the server.

Ya. Your right.

This is much much better for large orginizations to disable public key authorization support and use Kerberos instead.


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