[Info-vax] Two-Factor Authentication

[Dave Froble]

On 10/22/2019 7:26 PM, Arne Vajhøj wrote:
> 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
>

Ah, I believe he mentioned, "a friend" ...

:-)

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