Re: [Fed-Talk] Question on Mac approval
Re: [Fed-Talk] Question on Mac approval
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Question on Mac approval
- From: Peter Thoenen - NOAA Federal <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 29 Aug 2013 11:58:09 -1000
I believe Centrify has a CAC module for Apple. We just bought it for Linux
and I'm pretty confident they stated during engineering discussions they
could do Mac's also.
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> From: fed-talk-bounces+peter.thoenen=email@hidden
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> bounces+peter.thoenen=email@hidden] On Behalf Of John Oliver
> Sent: Thursday, August 29, 2013 10:20
> To: Apple Fed-Talk
> Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] Question on Mac approval
>
> Has anyone opened an issue in Bug Reporter? I've had issues closed as
> duplicates of other issues, so I know someone is paying
> attention. I've also had responses to others. Who knowsÅ if enough of us
> spoke up, maybe someone with authority would say hey,
> let's get this fixed.
>
> And this reminded me, I was going to look into CAC authentication for our
> Macs. I got as far as some docs that were relevant to 10.4,
> back when Apple included CAC support. Since it appears there's already a
> known solutionÅ how can we do that?
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> On 8/29/13 12:33 PM, "Robinson, Paul, DVI/DMA-Fort Meade"
> <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> >This point Ridley makes (see below) is illustrated by the 10.8 release.
> >Apple's disk encryption capability changed in 10.8. In 10.7 the CAC
> >could be used to provide the encryption key making it possible to boot
> >up the computer with a CAC. 10.8 dropped this support, so encryption
> >is via username/password. Once set it is not possible to enable CAC
> >login.
> >
> >The only solution is to procure a third-party disk encryption tool for
> >DAR compliance. I expressed this to an Apple rep yesterday and he says
> >their focus is small groups use of the workstations, despite the
> >enterprise use of the Apple OS across the Apple enterprise. Sad really.
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