On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 10:45 PM, Scott Howard <sc...@doc.net.au> wrote: > On Sat, Nov 21, 2009 at 6:38 AM, John Levine <jo...@iecc.com> wrote: > >> > Are passwords still the only lowest-common-denominator? >> >> There's OpenID, where a provider can use any verification process it >> wants, but all the OpenID providers I know use ordinary passwords. >> > > http://yubico.com/developers/openid/ > > I'm currently trialing Yubico's for access to a number of Unix systems (via > PAM), and they seem to work very well. Haven't played around with the
+1 for yubico's simplicity to setup/use. They also support a 'run your own auth server' model, so if you've got a closed system you don't have to find a way to sneak out http/s links to yubico-land. > OpenID support, so I can't comment on if/how well it works. I have not used their openid support either... but it looks promising. -Chris
