On 07/10/10 18:04, Mike McGrath wrote: > The Fedora Infrastructure team is happy to announce support for the > hardware key authentication device, the yubikey. Users will be able to > use their own yubikeys to access some Fedora services, like > fedorapeople.org or some web services. > > Why have we done this? The main purpose was to provide multi-factor > authentication to our high security systems. Requiring both a > username/password and yubikey otp to access our most sensitive hosts > provides an additional layer of security then just username/password > alone. Contributors requiring access to these hosts will be provided with > a yubikey. These hosts would include, for example, the signing servers. > > We also decided to allow yubikeys as an authentication option for the > larger community to some hosts and services like fedorapeople.org or > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/. When asked for a password, > just use your yubikey to generate a otp instead. Those wishing to use one > may purchase a yubikey on their own at: > > http://yubico.com/products/yubikey/ > > For more information on how to program your yubikey see the our yubikey > howto on the wiki: > > http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastruture/Yubikey > > Implementation work continues to be discussed and put in please but please > direct any questions or comments to #fedora-admin on irc.freenode.net or > the Infrastructure mailing list - > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/infrastructure > > -Mike > _______________________________________________ > infrastructure mailing list > infrastructure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/infrastructure Excellent work Mike. A big thank you to you and Dennis for packaging and setting it up, and anyone else who helped on this. I am looking forward to seeing the keyserver and auth api in the Fedora package list too, once it clears review. Regards, Tristan -- Tristan Santore BSc MBCS TS4523-RIPE Network and Infrastructure Operations InterNexusConnect Mobile +44-78-55069812 Tristan.Santore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Thawte Notary For Fedora related issues email: TSantore@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx _______________________________________________ infrastructure mailing list infrastructure@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/infrastructure
