[SmartcardServices-Users] Anyone else see smartcard use causing eventual authentication failure?

Hoit, Daniel S. hoit2 at llnl.gov
Thu Nov 1 11:43:02 PDT 2012


Peter, 
	Do you have them kill securityd, or reboot? Or is there perhaps another workaround?

	--DH

On Nov 1, 2012, at 11:32 AM, Peter Walsh wrote:

> Same issue for all of our team. Seems to happen more on laptops when put to sleep and either on wake up or on wake up onto a new network. Some desktop users never see it.
> 
> Very infuriating.
> 
> 
> Peter Walsh
> Jackpine Technologies, Inc.
> peter.walsh at jackpinetech.com
> c. 617/816-6001
> 
> 
> 
> On Nov 1, 2012, at 2:29 PM, "Hoit, Daniel S." <hoit2 at llnl.gov> wrote:
> 
>> us, when you click the lock icon in any App, you get nothing. No prompt, no unlock, just nothing.
>> Rebooting fixes the issue, as does doing a kill -9 of securityd.
>> This appears to happen on both 10.7 and 10.8 whether the smart card itself is being used by the Mac, or passed through to a windows VM.
>> 
>> I'd like to file a bug on it, but duplicating the issue has been difficult up till now. I've seen it personally on my own machines, as well as getting reports of it from the field, but it seemed to be intermittent. I've discovered on at least one of my machine though that I can trigger the condition by unlocking the smart card in keychain access.
>> 
>> Is this a known issue? Anyone else seeing this?
>> 
>> 
>> 	Thanks,
>> 		--DH
> 



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