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Authentication methods in OpenBSD
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Contributed by Chad Brandt
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Wednesday, 29 September 2004
OpenBSD supports several authentication methods besides a simple password. Here are some ways you can keep your systems safe.This article is excerpted from the recently published book Secure Architectures with OpenBSD.To use these alternate login methods, the username is changed and OpenBSD processes the authentication in the background. By default, the only authentication methods that are allowed are simple passwords and S/Key. To specify a different authentication method, the username has the authentication method appended to it after a colon:
login: bpalmer:skey otp-md5 95 psid06473 S/Key Password:
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