temojen's Journal: USB Stick

There's an article on Two-factor authentication using pam_usb in the November issue of Linux Journal, and "Source by CC" (formerly Radio Shack in Canada) has rugged 128MB usb flash drives for $20.

The box even lists Linux 2.4 or above in the requirements. Considering the design and size of this USB stick, I think they had twofactor authentication use in mind.

Some time later: Indeed they did! It comes out of the box formatted for two factor authentication use on Windows, write protected and with a crazy non-standard partitioning scheme, including a hidden partition and announcing itself as a 256KB disk. To re-format it and make it not write protected you need a special windows-only program. This was most annoying as I currently have an iBook (MacOS X 10.4), and a flock of Linux machines, but no windows machine.