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Re: One time user access



On Thu, Jan 17, 2002 at 11:23:29AM -0500, Scott Henson wrote:
> On Thu, 2002-01-17 at 00:08, Caleb Shay wrote:
> > Why not just use ssh and a windows ssh client like putty?
> > http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/
> > 
> > On Wed, 2002-01-16 at 21:08, Scott Henson wrote:
> > > I was wondering if there was anyway to create a user that could only
> > > login once and then was invalid.  See the thing is that I have to use
> > > telnet to login from a windows machine to do some work with the gcc.  I
> > > dont want to have to expose my machine to unnecessary security risks, so
> > > I was wondering if I could create something like one time login name and
> > > password pair, so that even if someone did obtain the user name/password
> > > pair from sniffing off the net, they wouldnt be able to use if cause it
> > > would be deleted off the system.  I dont know how clear I have been or
> > > if it is even possible, but any suggestions would be appreciated. 
> 
> 
> Well yes that would be the ideal thing to do, but unfortunately the
> windows computer that I have to use is a university machine and I cant
> install stuff on it.  I wish I could just install ssh, but they just
> wont let me.  Any other ideas?

Check out opie-client, opie-server, and libpam-opie.

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