hi, using mac addresses for client authentication seems to me as an extremely risky business as a mac address can easily be copied/cloned/spoofed... imho, it does not offer any authentication at all...
g. On Fri, 2 May 2003, Hans van Leeuwen wrote: > Hello, > > My company has created an application that allows remote users to edit > their DNS-records. This app needs to restart bind on the remote > nameservers. > > I have decided to do this thrue SSH by putting the client key in > authorized_keys2. But this seems a little risky, so I was wondering if > it was possible to get sshd to only allow the client MAC-address. > > I've looked around, but for some reason search-engines tend to send me > to www.apple.com ;-) > > Hans