[SmartcardServices-Users] New CAC problems

Fabrizio Rizzo fabrizio.rizzo at gmail.com
Mon Jan 25 11:34:50 PST 2010


Is this installer appropriate for Mac OS X 10.6.x?

On 1/25/10 11:14 AM, Shawn A. Geddis wrote:
> Paul,
>
> This indicates that you do not have the CAC-NG Tokend installed on 
> your machine -- Hence the lack of support for your New Card.
>
> And the Installer you are speaking of is the one I provided at : ?
>
>     http://static.macosforge.org/smartcardservices/downloads/installers/CAC-NG-v0.9-beta.zip
>
>
> -Shawn
>
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> Security Consulting Engineer
>
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> On Jan 25, 2010, at 2:06 PM, Evans, Paul CIV NAVAIR Bldg 1463 wrote:
>> Shawn,
>>
>> I don't have AFC running.  Checked the tokend directory and all I 
>> have are the following.
>>
>> BELPIC.tokend
>> CAC.tokend
>> PIV.tokend
>>
>> I tried reinstalling both under my account and as root and both said 
>> the install was successful.
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>>
>> Thanks.
>>
>> pe
>>
>>
>>
>> ________________________________
>>
>> From: Shawn A. Geddis [mailto:geddis at mac.com]
>> Sent: Mon 1/25/2010 12:25 PM
>> To: Evans, Paul CIV NAVAIR Bldg 1463
>> Cc: smartcardservices-users at lists.macosforge.org 
>> <mailto:smartcardservices-users at lists.macosforge.org>
>> Subject: Re: [SmartcardServices-Users] New CAC problems
>>
>>
>> On Jan 25, 2010, at 11:33 AM, Evans, Paul CIV NAVAIR Bldg 1463 wrote:
>>
>> All,
>>
>> I just received a new CAC today and I'm having issues with it on my 
>> MacBook Pro running 10.5.8.  The new card is apparently the dual 
>> applet type (CAC and PIV).  I found a post  on the fed-talk list from 
>> Shawn Geddis back in November pointing to the beta tokend and 
>> installed it but it still doesn't work.  The card seems to be 
>> recognized by the keychain app but when I click on it it doesn't show 
>> any certs or other information.  When I try to unlock it, it won't 
>> accept the PIN.  Are there any work-arounds?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>>
>>
>> Paul,
>>
>> The CAC-NG Tokend was indeed posted here for Mac OS X 10.5.x - Leopard:
>>
>> Main Project Page Posting: http://smartcardservices.macosforge.org/
>> Installers Page: 
>> http://smartcardservices.macosforge.org/trac/wiki/installers
>>
>>
>> This installer adds another Tokend "CAC-NG" to your Tokend directory.
>>
>> Since you indicate that:
>>
>> The card seems to be recognized by the keychain app but when I click 
>> on it it doesn't show any certs or other information.
>>
>>
>> This indicates that the card is being picked up by the original CAC 
>> Tokend and not the CAC-NG.  Is it possible that you have Thursby's 
>> ADmitMac for CAC (AFC) installed ?  If so, be aware that AFC has 
>> their version of the CAC tokend embedded in their software - not 
>> exactly ideal, but they took this approach to incorporate PKINIT in 
>> their earlier releases.  If you use AFC then Thursby will need to 
>> update their software for you.
>>
>> If you have never had AFC installed on this particular machine then 
>> we would need to look further at the current issues you might have 
>> preventing use of the CAC-NG.
>>
>>
>> Make sure that the tokend is indeed installed properly....
>>
>>
>> $ ls -al /System/Library/Security/tokend/
>>
>>
>> reply to list with what you have.
>>
>> -Shawn
>
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