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openssh package

  1. Bug #16918
  2. Comment #30

Comment 30 for bug 16918

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Tollef Fog Heen (tfheen) wrote : Re: [Bug 16918] Re: smartcard support is not enabled in openssh

* Colin Watson

| Loye: unfortunately this is not the case. If I build with OpenSC support
| then the binary will be linked against the OpenSC libraries, and this
| means that you will have to have those installed otherwise the binary
| simply won't run at all.

Another option for those wanting to use smart card support is just to
use a different agent than the ssh-agent that comese with ssh.

http://www.fsfe.org/en/fellows/tyrael/fsfe_card_complete_gnupg_ssh_login_how_to
has an explanation on how to get it going (though the udev rules and
such need not be adjusted on newer versions of Ubuntu).

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Tollef Fog Heen
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