If you find yourself in a position where you need to use Secure Shell (SSH) to connect to your Unix, Linux or even OSX environments, listen up.
We have had several customers complain about the SSH brute force attacks that is continuing to plague their servers and workstations in such environments. We understand your concern and realized that it might make sense to clearly explain how you can use AuthAnvil to address this.
If you want to provide identity assurance to your incoming SSH clients, simply configure SSH to use the pluggable authentication module (PAM) with RADIUS. Doing so allows you to easily use AuthAnvil's strong two-factor authentication without the need to install a special agent. mpore importantly, it will force incoming users to provide their two-factor authentication credential each time they try to remotely connect in.
We have provided a simple HOWTO to explain how to configure your SSHD service to support this, which is available in our Document Library. Of course, if you need any help you are free to open a case in the Customer Portal.
Hope that helps. Adding AuthAnvil's strong two-factor authentication is really as simple as reconfiguring the SSH daemon and pointing the authentication to the AuthAnvil RADIUS Server. From there you don't have to fear brute force attacks against your accounts. With the passcode changing each time it is used, this won't be something brute forced anytime soon!
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