[OATH-Toolkit-help] Re: Storage of credentials

[Simon Josefsson]

Daniel Pocock <address@hidden> writes:

>> I had a breif discussion with Simon regarding how to store user
>> credentials (alternatives to the /etc/users.oath file) before he
>> pointed me to this mail-list. Let's continue the discussion here!
>
> This is essentially why I built dynalogin as an extra layer around HOTP
> - you can then put dynalogin and the secrets on a dedicated, hardened
> machine.  The secrets never travel on the network, it simply gives
> yes/no responses to the auth requests.

Right that is a better approach, for larger installations you will want
to use some protocol between clients and a server.  But somewhere the
HOTP validation will need to occur, and there is where pam_oath could be
used -- for example if you are using FreeRadius with pam_oath as the
backend, and using pam_radius on all client hosts.  Using the usersfile
there doesn't scale.

/Simon