OTP – One Time Passwords

After the installation of anyterm on my sheeva I am now working on the integration of One Time Passwords to enable fullaccess to my network even from a compromised workstation in an internet cafe.

I decided to go with OPIE – One-time Passwords In Everything which is using the S/KEY system (http://www.inner.net/opie).  The installation is as easy as:

aptitude install opie-server opie-client

after that the pam module for SSH must be adjusted:

/etc/pam.d/sshd

auth sufficient pam_unix.so
auth sufficient pam_opie.so
auth required pam_deny.so

must be in whereas:

@include common-auth

must be out.

Initialisation is done via:

opiepasswd -c

which gives you back the first password and seed. You need to give a passphrase for the actual account before the command completes.

With the command opiekey the sequence number and the passphrase you can also get the apropriate password or with the option -n <number> a list of usable
passwords for printing.