Subject: Re: Typo (?) in /etc/pam.d/telnetd
To: Tomofumi Hayashi <tom.hayashi@alaxala.com>
From: John Nemeth <jnemeth@victoria.tc.ca>
List: netbsd-docs
Date: 05/18/2006 22:19:10
On Oct 9, 6:27am, Tomofumi Hayashi wrote:
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} In /etc/pam.d/telnetd (in NetBSD-3), there is a sentence
} "... using a built-in authenticator such as SRA."
} ~~~
} I think SRA is misspelled (may be correct because I don't know
} about PAM and security terms).
}
} SRA is typo and RSA may be correct, isn't it?
No, SRA is correct. RSA is a type of encryption. SRA is a secure
authentication method.
}-- End of excerpt from Tomofumi Hayashi