Hi Pau, This is very informative.
Thank you for taking the time to reply. I believe there are some sort of machines that "writes" the ID to the smartcards. In the case of every citizen, governments can encode their social-security-number or what not. But for organizations, who needs to encode EmployeeID or some sort of UNIQUE_ID to the smartcards, they will be using a writer i believe. Perhaps i should get my hand in one of those; a smartcard reader + a few smartcards and a smartcard writer(??) from eBay or wherever available. The OTC SSO in place for remote desktop works well and i am sure it will be a matter of installing the drivers and modifying the auto-login and pam scripts which are already in place. Good luck and keep in touch. all the best! pau carre wrote: > > Hello, I forgot tow things: > 1- There are readers embedded in keyboards: http://www.cherrycorp.com/ > 2- Sun have a proprietary smartcard thin client system: > http://www.sun.com/sunray/sunray2/ > > thats all > > 2008/11/10 pau carre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> Hello Akelio, >> Smartcards will be the de facto standard for European Union citizen >> identities, so I hope soon they will be supported in most computing >> systems. >> We (in Balearic Islands, Spain) are currently using Oberthur >> smartcards. We identify each user by using a certificate (a public key >> + metainformation). The private key is stored in the smartcard and >> can't be extracted (even using sophisticated methods). >> There are both USB and PCMCIA readers. The bad news are that you need >> reader and card drivers. The good news are that most providers have >> drivers for windows, linux (yes, linux!) and macosx for both readers >> and cards. >> Smartcards are not only more secure than passwords for authentication >> but can be used for digital signatures that are legally equivalent to >> manual ones in most of European Union countries. >> >> Hope this helps >> >> Pau Carré Cardona. >> >> >> 2008/11/10 akeilo cm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >>> >>> Hi Pau, >>> >>> Out of curiosity, where do you get the smartcards from >>> (vendor/off-the-shelf) and how do you manage the assignment of card to a >>> user (or userid or unique id). >>> >>> I saw and heard about smart card authentication but never had chance to >>> use >>> one. >>> >>> Using smartcard authentication (guess the thinclient has to have a >>> pcmcia >>> slot for smart card reader??) with thinclients sounds very cool indeed. >>> >>> Would be delighted if you can enlighten me/us. >>> >>> all the best! >>> >>> >>> pau carre wrote: >>>> >>>> Hello, I am very interested in deploying a thin client system with >>>> smart card authentication. In linux it is possible to configure >>>> smartcard readers and there are PAM modules for them but it seems not >>>> to exist >>>> any support for thin clients. I have not found any information about >>>> smartcards in the openthinclient web page so it seems not to support >>>> them. 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