>i was wondering if the question listed in the link below was ever answered >and if not, i was hoping you could provide please. >https://mailman.mit.edu/pipermail/kerberos/2010-September/016423.html
I can provide a quick summary: - Current stock MIT Kerberos for Windows does not support pkinit (that's what you need to use Smartcards). - People I work with have adapted the stock MIT Kerberos PKINIT plugin to work on Windows. - We've talked with MIT about contributing this code back; it proceeds in fits and starts. The last hold-up was getting a C language regular expression library with an acceptable license for MIT (I didn't think this would be a problem, but it turns out that it is). We use a PCRE library for our distribution but that has it's own issues. Unfortunately the developers on that project lost their contract and there aren't currently resources to push that forward into something that MIT would find acceptable. - To answer the specific question in that email message: stock MIT Kerberos works fine with PKINIT under OS X. If you want to use it with Smartcards, you need a compatible PKCS#11 library. If you are using the native smartcard support on OS X (which at the moment only supports PIV cards as far as I know), you can use Keychain-PKCS11. For other smartcards you could probably use OpenSC which provides a PKCS#11 library and support for smartcards that OS X does not support natively. In the interests of full disclosure: I wrote Keychain-PKCS11 so I am obviously biased toward it. --Ken ________________________________________________ Kerberos mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/kerberos
