[Info-vax] Two-Factor Authentication

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 10/22/2019 7:22 PM, Scott Dorsey wrote:
> =?UTF-8?Q?Arne_Vajh=c3=b8j?=  <arne at vajhoej.dk> wrote:
>> On 10/22/2019 2:01 PM, VAXman- at SendSpamHere.ORG wrote:
>>> Is anyone here using a two-factor authentication scheme with OpenVMS?
>>
>> VMS login over TCP/IP?
> 
>     -- Big market for this.  Lots of contracts for systems require it these
>        days.   You can't expect to sell to the government without it.
> 
>> VMS login console?
> 
>     -- Would be nice but not all that critical since VMS systems are usually
>        in places with good physical security.  In the New x86 era, they are
>        likely to be virtual systems and the virtual host can be trusted with
>        some amount of authentication.  So not as big a deal, and harder to do.
> 
>> Login some web application residing on VMS?
> 
>     -- I don't know about this.  How big a deal is it, really?  And is it
>        necessary to validate users with LDAP or kerberos as well as just
>        checking the certificate?

My point was that I think it would give better answers if we knew
what Brian want 2FA for.

Arne