Posted on May 10, 2009 by symbolik
I started last night. First, I decided to use the 32-bit LiveCD installer. I booted off the CD after shutting down Microsoft Windows Vista Home Premium, and soon was at the GUI (I chose the first option; to test before installing). Once there, i opened up a konsole session, ran “sudo -i” to get root, [...]
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Posted on June 9, 2007 by symbolik
Well, there seems to be more than one, but this is only about the one that hurts me at work the most. Regardless of the type of smartcard used to login, the new RDP client refuses to present a PIN login, instead prompting for a username and password. Now, if you’re accounts are setup to [...]
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Posted on May 28, 2007 by symbolik
A quick tip if using a smartcard reader (for things like CAC) with Firefox – some web sites may not work right if you cannot select the proper certificate. Some sites want the signature certificate and others want the email certificate. Internet Explorer offers you a choice – Firefox may not, unless you do THIS:
Open [...]
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Posted on February 26, 2007 by symbolik
Previously, I had trouble getting some of these readers to work under Linux – the ccid software would complain that the reader firmware was “bogus” and needed to be upgraded. To repeat a previous post, there is *NO* visible difference between the right and wrong versions of the readers – both say SCR331 on [...]
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Posted on February 25, 2007 by symbolik
In continuing to integrate CAC into Linux, I went to the RDesktop SourceForge CVS website, followed the cvs download directions (using “rdesktop” as the modulename), and downloaded the latest version of rdesktop, which is supposed to have smartcard reader support. This piggybacks off of the installation of the CAC reader software in the previous [...]
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Posted on February 25, 2007 by symbolik
I was recently able to get my DoD CAC (Common Acccess Card) working on Linux, following a discovery on AKO (Army Knowledge Online) that others had also done so, and had posted their instructions and results. I did not install from Mandriva packages, but from the tarballs as instructed, for better control over [...]
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