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Two-factor authentication

Two-factor authentication

Posted Sep 1, 2011 21:51 UTC (Thu) by Cato (subscriber, #7643)
In reply to: Two-factor authentication by endecotp
Parent article: kernel.org compromised

The cost would be a good motivation to have far fewer SSH logins on kernel.org. Non-SSH services wouldn't really need 2-factor authentication, as the risk of privilege escalation is much lower.


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