VPN authentication and MAC addresses

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Published on 2010-12-03T22:35:33Z Indexed on 2011/01/04 11:55 UTC
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I have to set up a VPN (various clients connecting to a web service on a server, which is also the VPN server) and I want to make sure that no user will share his/her credentials with third parties.

I know that this problem is not solvable completely, but I'd want to set up some additional security checks... Some idea I have:

1) An additional check on MAC address, but... are MAC addresses preserved thru VPN? 2) Some kind of extra identification of the client (User Agent, open ports, I want to make sure that is the very same client I authorized). 3) I would like to avoid commercial solutions like a security token... I realize it would be the perfect solution, but it will be to expensive, I suppose...

Do you feel that these options are viable? Do you have any other ideas? Thanks in advance for your replies!

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