Re: [OT] Smart Card Support

Rik van Riel (riel@humbolt.nl.linux.org)
Wed, 1 Sep 1999 11:23:59 +0200 (CEST)


On Wed, 1 Sep 1999, Flippie Spies wrote:

> When will linux be supporting Smart Card Technology.

As you said it in the subject, this is mostly off-topic for the
kernel list.

Smartcard readers are often attached to the serial port where a
userland program can read the cards and take care of authentication.
Just like /bin/login, /usr/sbin/sshd and similar programs take
care of authentication today.

Rik

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