Proposed F19 Feature: Enterprise / distributed two-factor authentication

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Tue Jan 29 19:36:00 UTC 2013


Jaroslav Reznik (jreznik at redhat.com) said: 
> = Features/EnterpriseTwoFactorAuthentication =
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/EnterpriseTwoFactorAuthentication
> 
> Feature owner(s): Daniel Pocock <daniel at pocock.com.au>
> 
> Provide a flexible solution for two-factor authentication on a distributed 
> basis, suitable for enterprise and SSO. 
> 
> == Detailed description ==
> Most OTP solutions for two-factor authentication require some kind of storage 
> backend for counters or other volatile data. Early implementations work with 
> flat files on a single host. dynalogin was created to bring stability and 
> flexibility, storing counters in just about any type of database. Other 
> solutions such as totp-cgi have similar goals (although it only mentions 
> Postgres support, whereas dynalogin can use MySQL thanks to UNIXODBC). 
> dynalogin has been successfully integrated with the SimpleID provider for 
> OpenID authentication. 

I'd really prefer this be retitled in a way that more clearly defines what
it is (i.e., Add SimpleIDandDynalogin2FA). As you can see from the responses,
the definition of what is 'Enterprise' lies in the beholder.

Bill


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