On Fri, Jan 28, 2011 at 4:42 PM, Brian LaMere
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brian@cukerinteractive.com> wrote:
> Anyone have luck setting up two-factor auth for Fedora in "the Cloud" -
> preferably, at AWS? Yes, I got one of the token generators discussed
> at
http://aws.amazon.com/mfa/
> However, those only appear to help with authentication to (per the faq):
>
> Secure pages on the AWS Portal (
http://aws.amazon.com)
> AWS Management Console (
https://console.aws.amazon.com)
>
> What if I need to multi-factor auth to the instances themselves? Anyone
> know if there's a service out there that does this for Fedora (or RedHat,
> which can easily be made to work for...) instances in the "cloud?"
> I'm used to doing this locally and then making the remote systems only allow
> access via a limited number of machines (which themselves do 2-factor). I'm
> now in a situation though with every workstation being outside the trust
> zone completely, VPN not being something that could change that (too many
> details...), and thus needing to accomplish the 2-factor in the cloud
> itself. Most of the results from "two factor authentication cloud" I get
> are about cloud-based providers authenticating the local machines...versus
> what I need, which is a service that I can auth cloud-based machines against
> for the second factor. I know of many industries that would *have* to have
> a 2-factor solution to use cloud instances, so surely my google-fu is just
> not working...anyone gone down this road themselves yet?
> Brian