All packed up and waiting for my plane to Raleigh. Going there to work on enabling two-factor authentication for the hosts that give shell access inside of Fedora’s Infrastructure. For the first round, I think we’re planning on going for simple and minimal to show what we can do. Briefly, the simplest and minimalist is:
* Server to verify a one time password (we already have one for yubikeys)
* CGI to take a username, password, and otp to verify in fas and the otp server
* pam module for sudo that verifies the user via the cgi
* database to store the secret keys for the otp generation and associate them with the fas username
We’re hoping to go a little beyond the minimal at the FAD:
* Have a web frontend to configure the secret keys that are stored for an account.
* Presently we’re thinking that this is a FAS frontend but we may end up re-evaluating this depending on what we decide to do for web apps and what to require for changing an auth source.
* Allow both yubikey and google-authenticator as otp
I’m also hoping that since we’ll have most of the sysadmin side of infrastructure present that we’ll get a chance to discuss and write down a few OTP policies for the future:
* Do we want to make two-factor optional for some people and required for others?
* How many auth sources do we require in order to change a separate auth source (email address, password, secret for otp generation, phone number, gpg key, etc)?
If we manage to get through all of that work, there’s a few other things we could work on as well:
* Design and implement OTP for our web apps
The Ramblings 