Yubikeys are now supported

[Tristan Santore]

  On 07/10/10 18:04, Mike McGrath wrote:
> The Fedora Infrastructure team is happy to announce support for the
> hardware key authentication device, the yubikey.  Users will be able to
> use their own yubikeys to access some Fedora services, like
> fedorapeople.org or some web services.
>
> Why have we done this?  The main purpose was to provide multi-factor
> authentication to our high security systems.  Requiring both a
> username/password and yubikey otp to access our most sensitive hosts
> provides an additional layer of security then just username/password
> alone.  Contributors requiring access to these hosts will be provided with
> a yubikey.  These hosts would include, for example, the signing servers.
>
> We also decided to allow yubikeys as an authentication option for the
> larger community to some hosts and services like fedorapeople.org or
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/community/.  When asked for a password,
> just use your yubikey to generate a otp instead.  Those wishing to use one
> may purchase a yubikey on their own at:
>
> http://yubico.com/products/yubikey/
>
> For more information on how to program your yubikey see the our yubikey
> howto on the wiki:
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Infrastruture/Yubikey
>
> Implementation work continues to be discussed and put in please but please
> direct any questions or comments to #fedora-admin on irc.freenode.net or
> the Infrastructure mailing list -
> https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/infrastructure
>
> 	-Mike
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Excellent work Mike. A big thank you to you and Dennis for packaging and 
setting it up,
and anyone else who helped on this. I am looking forward to seeing the 
keyserver and auth api
in the Fedora package list too, once it clears review.

Regards,

Tristan

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