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LordShadowWing

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Registered: 2014-04-13

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Smart card Reader drivers and Smart card login

I have a Dell Latititude D630 and I am rather new with arch and arch based distros, and I was wondering if it is posible to setup my arch laptop to login with a PKI smart card and also use the smart card to store other private certs.. The reader is not working for me as of this writing, the reader is the O2Micro OZ77Cxx USB SmartCard Controller, and is built into the laptop, could anyone offer some support here?

Strike0

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From: Germany

Registered: 2011-09-05

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Re: Smart card Reader drivers and Smart card login

One starting point for you might be: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Common_Access_Card
another: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/GnuPG#Smartcards

LordShadowWing

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Registered: 2014-04-13

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Re: Smart card Reader drivers and Smart card login

The reader is now being recognized... but my issue now is how to set my archbox to use a smart card to login as a standalone system. Pgp is an option, but x.509 certificates are preferred.

Strike0

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From: Germany

Registered: 2011-09-05

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Re: Smart card Reader drivers and Smart card login

You're welcome. For the rest, I'd say first of all it depends what you are running on the system to login to.

I read guides about setting up GDM to login with a smartcard certificate, e.g. this one, but never tried it myself. Anyhow, you need to be lot more specific on what you run on the system, what you have tried, what works, what works not, etc. Maybe you want to open another thread in a different bbs category for that though, as it will not terribly related to kernel & hw anymore.

LordShadowWing

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Registered: 2014-04-13

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Re: Smart card Reader drivers and Smart card login

That was exactly what I was looking for, Thank you. Now I just need to purchase a compatible card.