Support for RFC 6187 and smartcard authentication in OpenSSH

[Anamitra Dutta Majumdar]

Hi Anthony,

Thanks for the response. That would be helpful.
Do you happen to know about the support for RFC 6187.

Thanks
Anamitra

On 3/3/12 7:18 AM, "Anthony R Fletcher" <arif at mail.nih.gov> wrote:

>
>On 03 Mar 2012 at 01:19:21, Anamitra Dutta Majumdar wrote:
>> Hi Anthony ,
>> 
>> Thanks for your responses.
>> I have initiated a new thread.
>> Can you provide me with further details.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> Anamitra
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> Hello Anamitra,
>> 
>> I suggest you start a new thread on the list but, yes, there is smart
>> card authentication support in Fedora using opensc. It's been in Fedora
>> for a while.
>> 
>>         Anthony
>> 
>> On 02 Mar 2012 at 16:36:51, Anamitra Dutta Majumdar wrote:
>> 
>>     I am looking for a version of OpenSSH that has support for RFC 6187
>>and
>>     smart card authentication.
>>     Is there such a version out there yet.
>>     Thanks,
>>     Anamitra
>> 
>
>OpenSSH has has smart card support since version 5.4. Basically you load
>the smart public keys into your ssh-agent via the command
>
>    ssh-add -s <pkcs11-module>
>
>and unload them via
>
>    ssh-add -e <pkcs11-module>
>
>We are using 
>    ssh-add -s opensc-pkcs11.so
>
>which means you need to look into installing opensc and
>associated packages. off the top of my head, you'll need
>ccid, pcsc-lite-openct and openct.
>
>So you first job is to get the commands
>    piv-tool --serial
>    pkcs11-tool
>
>working with your smartcard. Once you have everything working you can
>extract the public keys via
>    ssh-keygen -D opensc-pkcs11.so
>
>Good luck.
>
>        Anthony
>
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