There is no way to talk then into using ssh.  If they are on windows
machines they can use putty or teraterm with the ssh extension.

Joseph Key

----- Original Message -----
From: "Ben Luey" <lueyb at gridley.ACNS.Carleton.edu>
To: <tclug-list at mn-linux.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 24, 2001 3:58 PM
Subject: [TCLUG] web s/key gen for telnet


> I've got this server that these users want telnet access to (err). The
> compromise we've reached is to allow telnet, but only with one-time
> passwords generated with s/key. So what I want to do is have people go to
> our web page, login over ssl and click a button to see their new one time
> code, which will expire in, say, 10 minutes (can s/key do that?). The web
> page will also let them generate a new seed for s/key.
>
> Has anyone done this, and ideas? I'm thinking of just having the the web
> page run (as httpd, I guess) sudo su -c $USER skey -s blah blah and
> outputting the results to the web page. Any ideas / concerns / programs
> that will do this for me?
>
> I've seen java OTP (s/key) calculators -- am I right that this is not what
> I'm looking for?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ben
>
>
>
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