Subject: Re: ssh - are you nuts?!?
To: None <gendalia@iastate.edu>
From: None <opentrax@email.com>
List: tech-security
Date: 12/20/2000 04:48:59
On 17 Dec, Tracy J. Di Marco White wrote:
>
> }To come back on ssh, two other advantadges (forgive my worse English) are
> }1) RSA-based host authentication.
>
> }2) Instead of giving in a username you can also use RSA based authentication
> }with a passphrase. It's shortly explained in ssh(1) (man 1 ssh).
>
> As a system administrator, I consider RSA based authentication not so much
> of a plus. I manage systems with up to 45K users, and we mandate decent
> passwords. Using RSA passphrase authentication allows people to circumvent
> our password rules, and in fact allows them to choose to have no passphrase
> at all. We use kerberos, and kerberos encrypted telnet offers some moderate
> amount of encryption.
>
So you believe in your schenario that telnet with kerberos is more than
enough. Is that correct?
Jessem.