Re: Ssh Login with out a password or key

From: Darren Dunham (ddunham_at_redwood.taos.com)
Date: 05/28/03 

Date: Wed, 28 May 2003 18:35:57 GMT

Brian Claise <bclaise@tga.com> wrote:
> Well the idea is that SSH will act solely as an encrypted transport. We
> have a "Shell" application that performs all the authentication, and really
> provides an idiot proof interface (as opposed to having a bash shell).

If you're going to do the authentication at an application layer, then
just use password authentication and give the account a null password.

Anyone can communicate with the application in an encrypted manner and
then get to your authentication stage. 

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Darren Dunham                                           ddunham@taos.com
Unix System Administrator                    Taos - The SysAdmin Company
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