Date: Fri, 4 Oct 1996 08:39:30 -0400 (EDT) From: "Ron G. Minnich" <rminnich@Sarnoff.COM> To: Stephen Hocking <sysseh@devetir.qld.gov.au> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SecureID cards & userland ppp Message-ID: <Pine.SUN.3.91.961004083837.11430B@terra> In-Reply-To: <199610040739.HAA07974@netfl15a.devetir.qld.gov.au>
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On Fri, 4 Oct 1996, Stephen Hocking wrote: > My place of employment is now doing it's dialing via the SecureID stuff. For > those who don't know, each persion is issued with a nifty little card & a PIN > number. The card has a display on it that changes every 5 or so minutes. You > dial in and are prompted for a user name. Upon entering this, you are prompted > for a passcode, which is your PIN number concatenated with whatever the number > is on the display of the card at that time. As you can imagine, this makes > automating it rather difficult. One can't persuade it to prompt for user input well, if you're using chat, i had a shell script that invoked chat with the PIN after a read command. This is a problem if the dial-in sequence takes too long and the number rolls over, but in general it works well. ron
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