-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hi list.
I have for some time now been trying to avoid using passwords as much as possible, preferring encryption keys instead (e.g. public private key encryption like gpg and such). I have also started using longer randomised passwords I shouldn't remember; storing them instead in a safe place (e.g. encrypted memory card or flashdisk). So when setting up a new Gentoo machine today and being about to enter a new root password I found myself wanting a way of doing authentication through some other means than remembering a password, like gpg or certificates. Does this exist; and if anyone has had experience with it, is it worth the hassle? And if this is a bad way of doing root authentication, why/how? Also the machine in question will have more than one user and a subset of the users shall have access to the root account. - -- Thomas Sigurdsen browniehive.net -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJTIzzwAAoJEMUjE08Xv1s5uoAH/3v9b2LjOu2HFsCgjcThFFrn 00bnxQRTsxLrtnltF6UKF0GBS3cs6vNRTevVCX9t8xOBRD8/ATp83U/tzx0EgYVP 6LItUcbwdv41IcmVcPYqu8AzNRDyaUQswh8KV7Cpq3IPbhYkn5CkOlVorWEZxDrn veuBJ7FEGHDppJDkdSAfNGlhtOL1UphuVy4M024NliGbNVqGgeo/42mmg21mLayG js/5fG2NkT+Zgi59UY6+NHk08r6qk5qjhWXlsPjMrbGKaX483nNwLFHFxA8bNB6H cZqB7GOxDlXi7dtcbBA3YRn1yKUtCDDiT8Gk/mKvTaiZtsORToAoinaxrT0y/Zo= =iGQn -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
