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October 27

Certificates and not using passwords

My friend runs a Mumble (software) server and would like to be able to let people in without them knowing the password (so that they can't divulge the password to anyone else). Mumble has a certificate system to recognise registered users on a server, so we're thinking that maybe we could set Mumble to allow certified users in, as well as users with the password, but not users with neither. I realise this is not the place to ask about Mumble specifically, but I'm curious if such a system exists in general, if it has a name, and where I might read more about it. 81.147.166.89 (talk) 03:27, 27 October 2013 (UTC)

This [1] suggest that it is possible to do what you want, but it seems to assume that each user would have a seperate account and password. From the wording of your question, I get the feeling there is only one shared account on the server, and thus that is why you don't want to share the password? RudolfRed (talk) 02:31, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

And to answer the other part of your queston, see Public key certificate RudolfRed (talk) 02:34, 28 October 2013 (UTC)

Thanks for the help! 81.147.166.89 (talk) 23:32, 29 October 2013 (UTC)