Comment 11 for bug 16918

Message-Id: <20040206202243.707AD5CAFF4@nightcrawler>
Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2004 15:22:43 -0500
From: Eric Dorland <email address hidden>
To: Debian Bug Tracking System <email address hidden>
Subject: please include opensc support

Package: ssh
Version: 1:3.6.1p2-11
Severity: wishlist

I've recently uploaded the opensc package to unstable. It contains
infrastructure for supporting smart cards and usb tokens. OpenSSH can be
compiled with opensc support (see ./configure --help, --with-opensc
switch). It would be great to be able to incorporate the opensc support
into openssh. I'm eager to send you a patch for enable this support, but
I'm not sure how you would like to go about it. If it was enabled in the
current openssh package, I would need to put opensc in standard which
may not be popular (although if smart card usage takes off this move may
make sense). Or would you prefer to have a seperate package (ssh-sc or
something) that is contains the opensc enabled ssh?

Eagerly awaiting your reponse :)

-- System Information:
Debian Release: testing/unstable
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable'), (1, 'experimental')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.0
Locale: LANG=en_US, LC_CTYPE=en_US

Versions of packages ssh depends on:
ii adduser 3.51 Add and remove users and groups
ii debconf 1.4.8 Debian configuration management sy
ii dpkg 1.10.18 Package maintenance system for Deb
ii libc6 2.3.2.ds1-11 GNU C Library: Shared libraries an
ii libpam-modules 0.76-15 Pluggable Authentication Modules f
ii libpam-runtime 0.76-15 Runtime support for the PAM librar
ii libpam0g 0.76-15 Pluggable Authentication Modules l
ii libssl0.9.7 0.9.7c-5 SSL shared libraries
ii libwrap0 7.6-ipv6.1-3 Wietse Venema's TCP wrappers libra
ii zlib1g 1:1.2.1-3 compression library - runtime

-- debconf information excluded