On Wednesday, 11/23/2005 at 02:36 CST, Thomas Kern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 
wrote:
> Management is looking at having ALL system administrators use 2 part
> authentication. One product that is prominent in their discussions is
> RSA's SecurID. Their website lists components for Windows, Solaris, AIX
> and Intel-based Linux. My boss is going to ask them if they support
> systems on IBM zSeries platforms.
> 
> Has anyone else had experience with this product even without their
> mainframe systems being part of the setup?

RSA SecurID is normally integrated into the network access controls.  That 
is, authentication and host access authorization decisions are made at the 
[VPN] network boundary (a la firewall), not on each host.

That said, I have heard other requests for two-part authentication, 
typically requiring X.509 user certificates for SSL/TLS, plus a 
userid/password at the target service.

Alan Altmark
z/VM Development
IBM Endicott

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