Re: OpenSC at FOSDEM 2018

Il 08/01/2018 08:10, Frank Morgner ha scritto:

> If OpenSC is not responsive enough, have you tried enabling file
> caching?
Uh? The bottleneck is the access to the token... But I didn't know file
caching and I'll have to have a look.

> Did you disable the card drivers that you don't need?
No, I usually have to use OS supplied packages (for long term
maintenance). Surely, on a test machine I can experiment with git
releases, but for deployment I have to wait for the changes to arrive in
the distro.

> Instead of using 42 ssh sessions to the same machine,
Never said these sessions are to the same machine. It would be useless.
It's ~half of a 81 PCs lab. cssh is used to send the same command to all
the sessions. Before using cssh, it took 3 days to deploy all the
updates on all the machines. With cssh it only takes ~2h.

> Complaining doesn't help much for making the situation better,
Yup. I stopped complaining-without-trying-to-debug about 30 years ago :)
Mine was not intended as a complaint, just as a reminder of a series of
"problems" users have to face.

> so here are some short hints:
Tks. I'll keep 'em handy.

>   * Using smart cards in a managed environment work quite good (even
>     with PKCS#11)! Your company just needs a good IT department that
>     configures everything that's needed.
I am one of the most experienced Linux users in our IT team (that's the
main reason I can't easily deploy anything compiled from sources: other
techs wouldn't be able to maintain it).

BYtE,
 Diego

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