Re: [Fed-Talk] DISA transverse and DCS
Re: [Fed-Talk] DISA transverse and DCS
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] DISA transverse and DCS
- From: Peter Walsh <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2015 16:44:32 -0400
I have successfully configured & used Transverse on Mac (10.10) to connect to DCS.
The steps involved:
- Downloading the client and installing in a Windows VM
- Copying the application folder from Windows to Mac
- Editing the transverse.conf file to change the following:
smartCardLibrary=/path/to/tokendPKCS11.so
- Launch via Transvers.sh or transverse.jar
- Configure per DCS instructions
- Chat
The tokendPKCS11.so shared library has not been distributed with the OS since 10.6 or 10.7. You can copy it from an old OS install (usually found in /usr/libexec/SmartCardServices/pkcs11/tokendPKCS11.so ) or try to build from source on Mac OS Forge (http://smartcardservices.macosforge.org). I have confirmed that PKard (Thursby), Centrify and CACkey do not supply a shared library for PKCS11; they leverage Keychain.app. ActiveIdentity might, I do not know.
Peter Walsh
Jackpine Technologies Corp.
email@hidden
c. 617/816-6001
> On Apr 9, 2015, at 3:18 PM, John Daly <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> Greetings
>
> I can verify the transverse does run on the Mac. I haven't switched from Adium yet, but a coworker has stated that it works fine with DCO.
> The problem is that it will not connect to DCS, the replacement for DCO.
> I do have a call into DCS support, but don't expect much beyond a "it's not supported on non-windows platforms."
> My understanding is that it has to do with reading the shared library for the CAC. Transverse expects a windows library structure and the Mac doesn't have it.
> We use Thursby Pkard to access CAC, since the smartcardservices setup on macosforge doesn't read oberthur cards, and PKard doesn't have a shared library.
> A developer would need to write a jabber client that would use the Mac keychain for CAC authentication and then it would work.
>
> From the mind of me
>
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