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Submitted by: Chris Kukulies
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60 lines
1.7 KiB
Groff
.ll 6i
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.\" @(#)skey.1 1.1 10/28/93
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.\"
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.lt 6.0i
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.TH KEY 1 "28 October 1993"
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.AT 3
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.SH NAME
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S/key \- A procedure to use one time passwords for accessing computer systems.
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.SH DESCRIPTION
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.I S/key
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is a procedure for using one time password to authenticate access to
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computer systems. It uses 64 bits of information transformed by the
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MD4 algorithm. The user supplies the 64 bits in the form of 6 English
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words that are generated by a secure computer.
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Example use of the S/key program
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.I key
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.sp
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Usage example:
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.sp 0
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>key 99 th91334
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.sp 0
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Enter password: <your secret password is entered here>
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.sp 0
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OMEN US HORN OMIT BACK AHOY
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.sp 0
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>
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.sp
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The programs that are part of the S/Key system are keyinit, key, and
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keyinfo. Keyinit is used to get your ID set up, key is
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used to get the one time password each time,
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keyinfo is used to extract information from the S/Key database.
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.sp
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When you run "keyinit" you inform the system of your
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secret password. Running "key" then generates the
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one-time passwords, and also requires your secret
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password. If however, you misspell your password
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while running "key", you will get a list of passwords
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that will not work, and no indication about the problem.
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.sp
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Password sequence numbers count backward from 99. If you
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don't know this, the syntax for "key" will be confusing.
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.sp
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You can enter the passwords using small letters, even
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though the "key" program gives them in caps.
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.sp
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Macintosh and a general purpose PC use
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are available.
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.sp
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Under FreeBSD, you can control, with /etc/skey.access, from which
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hosts and/or networks the use of S/Key passwords is obligated.
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.LP
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.SH SEE ALSO
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.BR keyinit(1),
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.BR key(1),
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.BR keyinfo(1)
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.BR skey.access(5)
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.SH AUTHOR
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Phil Karn, Neil M. Haller, John S. Walden, Scott Chasin
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