US DoD CAC Setup Instructions for Linux
(and other, lesser *nixes)
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Fedora 13 |
Ubuntu 10.4 LTS |
NOTE: This is not the LibreCAD Bounce or pre-release RPMs page. That is located here.
What these guides are:
Post-installation guides for users of Unix-like systems (Fedora, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Mac OS X/Darwin, BSD, AIX, etc.) who need a step-by-step instructional on how to set up standard CAC readers (SCR331 smartcard readers) for use with web-based systems such as AKO/DKO, DTS, RMT, OWA, etc. These guides also briefly cover increasing media functionality to include plugins and codecs necessary for some government websites (such as TraX). The media aspects of this tutorial may be legally gray – not because you are doing anything wrong, but because the crotchety old stooges in Congress who make the rules did not understand the technical arguments against the DCMA (nor where it was coming from) and have criminalized many aspects of mathematics and individual scientific exploration in the process (oops!). These guides assume you already have a freshly (or not-so-freshly) installed system, have root privileges and know how to navigate to a shell from the graphical desktop.
What these guides are not:
Full post-installation guides to cover everything you ever wanted to do with your system like play WoW on Wine, run a Freenet node, be a Hax0r, or even a real hacker.
These are not guides for Windows users. The definitive resource for Windows
CAC issues is maintained at https://militarycac.com/.
I would like to extend a huge thanks to CW3 Danberry, maintainer of MilitaryCAC.com, for his input and detailed proofreading of my (shaky) prose.
What happened to these guides (?!?):
I have left the military, no longer have access to a CAC and so can no longer continue development or testing
on these projects -- which makes maintaining tutorials pretty much impossible as well. I also have no time for this at
the moment anyway, as I have recently started an open-source company here in Japan (major time
eater!). I may wind up back in the Army again if things don't turn out well, but if I do I'll almost definitely wind up back
on a team with no time to devote to open source projects -- at least for a while.
In other news, I am involved in a promising new CAD project (among others) and
am currently hosting the (underdeveloped) wiki/documentation project for it here.
I am considering creating a wiki space for CAC-on-Linux here to give the community a chance to maintain these tutorials,
but I do need a maintainer to come forward first so I can be sure that it won't become a wikified spam-dump. Providing space and
ad-free, flash-free, irritant-free hosting here is not an issue, and just about every credible link to CAC on Linux points here
anyway, but with no wiki maintainer to tend to things I just don't think its reasonable to go to the trouble.
If you happen to want to volunteer to maintain CAC on Linux information,
please let me know and we can
work something out.
All contents copyright 2010 zxq9.
If you want to reuse something, just
contact me.
I'm nice.