Might be a good move
Might be a good move
Posted Jun 29, 2025 10:52 UTC (Sun) by cortana (subscriber, #24596)In reply to: Might be a good move by linuxrocks123
Parent article: GNOME deepens systemd dependencies
> Not super secure to be using a PIN instead of a password as the second authentication factor, though
"PIN" does not imply "4 numeric digits". But in any case - the smart card will only allow authentication attempts at a configured rate, and will lock down, preventing any further attempts after a certain number of failures.
> You could certainly make that work on Linux
sssd already implements all this AFAIK. At least, what jem describes is exactly how I use my YubiKey, except that I haven't enabled the option to lock the screen when it's unplugged, because I'm using this on my home systems and I often do want to have my laptop and desktop both active at the same time!
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