Re: Three steps we could take to make supply chain attacks a bit harder

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On Wed, Apr 03, 2024 at 07:27:12AM -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 2, 2024 at 7:41 PM Kevin Fenzi <kevin@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 02, 2024 at 04:38:25PM -0400, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> > > On Tue, Apr 2, 2024 at 3:55 PM Steve Cossette <farchord@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I personally would very much agree with enforcing the use of 2fa on the Fedora Account System. Maybe take that opportunity to make it a bit more user friendly? (Such as the fkinit prompt requiring the 2fa code being added at the end of your password -- to be clear I think the 2fa code should be separate)
> > >
> > > https://pagure.io/fedora-packager/pull-request/179
> >
> > I agree that fixing the mismatch in prompts might be nice, but why does
> > having 2fa seperate make things any better? I mean, it's one more return
> > you get to hit. ;)
> >
> > And... I am not sure about moving the handling of passwords to a bash
> > script from a kinit prompt.
> >
> 
> The kinit is already being run inside a bash script, so if bash is
> compromised with a keylogger, you've already lost the game... I'm not
> sure how this is worse.

Well, I meant more that now $PASSWORD has your password where before
kinit was the only thing you input your password into. :) 
So, if someone does say a 'sh -x fkinit' to look at something, their
password will show up, but it's probibly fine.

> Yeah, it's an extra keystroke, but I think there's value in helping
> the user provide the input in the proper format. Right now it's
> confusing (particularly since the kinit prompt gives bad information
> that we have to warn about).

Sure.

kevin

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