otp code state
Alan DeKok
aland at deployingradius.com
Thu Mar 13 14:57:20 CET 2014
Brian Candler wrote:
> I notice that raddb/mods-available/otp has a link to
>
> <http://www.tri-dsystems.com/>
>
> That domain is broken - there are REFUSED responses from both their
> nameservers.
They got bought by RedHat.
> If they have gone out of business, perhaps the file should link to this
> fork instead?
> https://code.google.com/p/otpd/
> That hasn't had a release since Nov 2009, although SVN has commits from
> Sep 2012.
I don't like referencing unsupported software.
> I'm just trying to work out whether this is a viable option going
> forward (specifically for yubikey authentication, in place of using a
> PAM module)
>
> I notice that the README file says that you will need:
>
> b. A plugin for your auth server, that talks to otpd. You can
> download plugins from the TRI-D Systems web site, or write
> your own. Your authentication server software vendor might
> also supply plugins for otpd.
>
> But if their site has gone away, that means it's probably not very
> useful :-(
I think it's time to remove rlm_otp from v3. It's not supported, no
one uses it, and the code is pretty horrific.
Alan DeKok.
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