On 03/21/2013 02:42 AM, Martin Hess wrote:
Hi Kevin
The Point of using XAuth-PWD's could be that with XAuth a FW Admin
can selectively disable users. So Xauth is not an added security
layer but more an management layer. And in that way it would be nice
to save these passwords.
martin
2013/3/21 Kevin VPN <[email protected]>
On 02/18/2013 12:25 AM, Steve Yakovenko wrote:
subj
Hi Steve, this has been asked before on the list. You cannot save
the password in the Access Manager. Think about it. If you're
just going save the password so that anyone who uses the machine
can just connect to the VPN, what's the point of the password
then?
However, if you have a need, as some users have, to automate
connecting the VPN, there is a command line program you can use to
connect. If you're comfortable with embedding the password in a
script file, you could do that. See this post:
https://lists.shrew.net/**pipermail/vpn-help/2010-**August/002920.html
Hi Martin,
I hadn't thought of it that way, but that's a valid way to use XAuth.
Thanks for pointing it out.
On the other hand, I suspect that >90% of users would choose to save
their passwords if given the option, defeating the purpose for the
standard use case of security/authentication.
If save passwords were enabled in Shrew, I think it would ideally be a
hidden/protected setting that could be set in the VPN configuration file
(only) by an administrator. In other words, the end user could only
save if the VPN administrator permitted it by providing a config file
with that setting enabled.
Yes, I'm aware that the Internet would allow a user to quickly find out
what that setting is and manipulate their configuration file to enable
the setting, but it would still be a deterrent. It would also work in
policy compliance/forensics settings - if the configuration file was
provided to the user with the save password option disabled, but the
user enabled it, then responsibility for the policy violation and/or
resulting security breach rests with the user.
I still think I would come down on the side of not allowing to save
passwords though.
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