On Wed, 6 Nov 2002 05:42:07 -0000 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Odhiambo Washington) wrote:
> >Sincerely, I don't understand this stuff. I've tried to read it. >Is anyone willing to tell me the advantages of s/key and whether I should use >it? Depends how you rate security over convenience. I have used it often for FTP accounts. The benefit is that passwords are never re-used and knowledge of a password can't be used to determine future ones. The downside is that people find it a pain to have a sheet of passwords and strike them out one at a time, or use an s/key calculator. To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message