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Date:      Sun, 5 Aug 2001 02:34:56 +0400
From:      "Andrey A. Chernov" <ache@nagual.pp.ru>
To:        Mark Murray <mark@grondar.za>
Cc:        Bill Fenner <fenner@research.att.com>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/lib/libopie Makefile
Message-ID:  <20010805023456.A36079@nagual.pp.ru>
In-Reply-To: <200108041415.f74EFhr12941@grimreaper.grondar.za>
References:  <20010803221915.A16875@nagual.pp.ru> <200108041415.f74EFhr12941@grimreaper.grondar.za>

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On Sat, Aug 04, 2001 at 15:15:43 +0100, Mark Murray wrote:
> > Exact the same thing I say. Why pretend to be more secure (really _false_
> > secure) since this sort of security can be easily overriden by even not so
> > expirienced hacker using
> > 
> > "echo mypassphrase | env DISPLAY=:0 otp-md5 ..."
> > 
> > and the same tricks?
> 
> That is a bug that needs to be fixed in its own right.

It is not a bug, it is official way OPIE detects that connection is
secure. That is, via environment variable :-(

Do you know secure ways to detect running on X console? Or running under
SSH connection?

-- 
Andrey A. Chernov
http://ache.pp.ru/

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