1. Piv Card Reader For Mac

Centrify: Smart Card Support for Macs in Active Directory Environments Centrify is most known for developing Direct Control, a product that extends Microsoft’s Active Directory to include group policy management of non-Windows servers and workstations. Centrify’s offers a number of group policy objects for managing Mac workstations in Windows Server/Active Directory environments. In February, Centrify announced support for smart card authentication of managed Mac OS X computers.

This allows Macs in a Windows network environment to use smart cards for login authentication based on a user’s Active Directory account.

Question: What troubleshooting steps can be performed if smart card logins are not working on a Mac? Answer: • The very first thing to do is to ensure that the Mac is able to recognise the smart card: • Open Keychain Access and insert the smart card into the reader • The card should appear in the window as another Keychain with its certificates loaded. • If the smart card does NOT appear in the Keychain, then make sure the firmware of the smart card reader itself has been updated to the latest version.

Piv Card Reader For Mac

Announcing DirectControl Express for Smart Card We saw a need in the Federal Mac marketplace for end users to access their smartcards while working on personal Macintosh computers. This capability doesn’t exist in the standard Mac OS. Applies to: All versions of Centrify DirectControl on Mac OS X Question: Can smart cards be used to unlock Mac systems encrypted with FileVault 2? Answer: FileVault 2 is not compatible with smart card authentication.