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Operating Systems HP-UX Multi-factor authentication Post 302772444 by lupin..the..3rd on Monday 25th of February 2013 03:19:00 PM

02-25-2013

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Originally Posted by DGPickett

If you have the money for the tokens (I have carried many), the vendors help you get set up. I am not an SA focused guy.

I'm familiar with using tokens to authenticate a VPN network connection, but I have not seen them in use for authenticating users to an individual server, especially an HP-UX server running in Trusted Mode. I could call around to the vendors and see what they can offer, but was more curious if anyone here had already implemented such a thing, and what products they used, and what their opinions were on the solution.

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Originally Posted by DGPickett

Once, I proposed writing a free lightweight one where on top of the password, there was a challenge-response from a small database or flat file. You take a printout home and answer from that. Challenges get a one time use, so you need to generate a new set and print it out now and then. I guess you could put it in a file and automate it. What you have and what you know = 2 things. You might be able to set it up as a shell wrapper in passwd that demands the response before starting your shell.

That's a clever idea, and may even meet our requirement. Running in Trusted Mode however I think would rule that out. Trusted Mode is very different animal when it comes to user authentication.

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xtsolsetworkstationowner

XTSOLsetWorkstationOwner(3XTSOL)		 Trusted Extensions to X Windows Library Functions		  XTSOLsetWorkstationOwner(3XTSOL)

NAME

       XTSOLsetWorkstationOwner - set the ownership of the workstation

SYNOPSIS

       cc [flag...] file... -lX11 -lXtsol [library...]
       #include <X11/extensions/Xtsol.h>

       Status XTSOLsetWorkstationOwner(display, uidp);

       Display *display;
       uid_t *uidp;
       XTSOLClientAttributes *clientattrp;

PARAMETERS

       display	  Specifies a pointer to the Display structure; returned from XOpenDisplay().

       uidp	  Specifies a pointer to a uid_t structure that contains a UID.

DESCRIPTION

       The  XTSOLsetWorkstationOwner()	function  is  used by the Solaris Trusted Extensions logintool to assign a user ID to be identified as the
       owner of the workstation server. The client running under this user ID can set the server's device objects, such as keyboard mapping, mouse
       mapping, and modifier mapping. The client must have the Trusted Path process attribute.

RETURN VALUES

       None.

ERRORS

       BadAccess    Lack of privilege.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +---------------------------+-------------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	   |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +---------------------------+-------------------------------+
       |Interface Stability	   | Committed			   |
       +---------------------------+-------------------------------+
       |MT-Level		   | Unsafe			   |
       +---------------------------+-------------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       libXtsol(3LIB), XTSOLgetWorkstationOwner(3XTSOL), attributes(5)

       Accessing and Setting a Workstation Owner ID in Solaris Trusted Extensions Developer's Guide

NOTES

       The functionality described on this manual page is available only if the system is configured with Trusted Extensions.

SunOS 5.11							    20 Jul 2007 				  XTSOLsetWorkstationOwner(3XTSOL)