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Re:Hackers breached Colonial Pipeline using compromised pass... by jl2718 on Saturday June 05, 2021 @04:18AM (#27403236)
Personally I think RADIUS is a terrible idea. If that thing is compromised, or even the network or name service to connect to it, the attacker gets everything. Cert-based auth gives every client the ability to independently authorize every login without any ability to learn or compromise credentials. And there are lots of cert-based MFAs that require nothing more than a few lines in an Apache config, or even handled through the operating system to set up a vpn handshake.

One of my biggest contributions at one place I worked was to dismantle their radius auth and replace it with token cert auth. It’s hard to write about that on a resume, because people tend to be more impressed with complexity than simplicity.

Re:Hackers breached Colonial Pipeline using compromised pass... by er4hn on Saturday June 05, 2021 @08:04AM (#27404191)
"Upgraded legacy, obsolete, AAA service with modern and standards compliant solution"

And if it is ever asked about, boy do you have some great stories about upgrading from a system whose protocol name referred to dial in modems and used MD5 to obfuscate passwords.

Re:Hackers breached Colonial Pipeline using compromised pass... by qazxcvbnmlp on Saturday June 05, 2021 @12:37PM (#27406479)
Thank you. Not the op but I have trouble coming up with this stuff for my own resume.