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From: cory@gloom.UUCP (Cory Kempf)
Newsgroups: sci.crypt,comp.unix.wizards,news.sysadmin
Subject: Re: Yet Another useful paper
Message-ID: <287@gloom.UUCP>
Date: 3 Jan 89 17:07:12 GMT
References: <11013@ulysses.homer.nj.att.com> <2308@cuuxb.ATT.COM> <12750@bellcore.bellcore.com> <1988Dec26.151208.19016@ziebmef.uucp> <1302 <384@ispi.UUCP>
Reply-To: cory@gloom.UUCP (Cory Kempf)
Organization: Alloy Computer Products, Framingham Mass.
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In article <384@ispi.UUCP> jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer) writes:

[ in response to the idea of logging in only to your 'home' computer,
and allowing it to validate you to the rest of the network:]

>You missed the point.  In order for you playing the part of root to
>convince the other system that you are root your root system will have
>to have been identified to  the other systems as being allowed to become
>root.  In other words, the authentication system will only authenticate
>those ids which it has been told to do so.

Hey, this might just be a really great idea!  However, let's take it
one step further:  Program the function keys to have our login name
and password!  For example, set F1 to "cory", and F2 to "d0:^FQ+m&".
This way, we can all use really cryptic passwords that are hard to
remember, and we won't even have to remember them!  When we want to
log in, all we do is type in F1<cr>F2<cr>!  When we want to use the
network, and it asks for a password, all we have to do is hit F2<cr>!
What could be easier?  

+C

(btw, if anyone missed it, :-) )


-- 
Cory ( "...Love is like Oxygen..." ) Kempf
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	"...it's a mistake in the making."	-KT