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OSX and cac reader

Gatordev

Gatordev

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A buddy of mine had it working using Parallels w/in the MacOS. I know that's not the easiest/cheapest answer, but he had good luck w/ it (he's a reservist and had to do his stuff online).
 
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S.O.B.

Registered User
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gatordev said:
A buddy of mine had it working using Parallels w/in the MacOS. I know that's not the easiest/cheapest answer, but he had good luck w/ it (he's a reservist and had to do his stuff online).
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Yea that's a separate issue for me. I'm also running XP but I couldn't get NMCI to recognize the certificates when I open webmail. I gave up on the windows side and now I'm trying to make it work on OSX.

I've been unsuccessfully working with NMCI on this issue for hours.
 
squorch2

squorch2

he will die without safety brief
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If NMCI will even admit to knowing that macs exist, I'll be impressed. CAC is supposed to be an open architecture, but as with so many things Navy+IT, I'm sure they took the lazy route and somehow tied it to XP.
 
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m0tbaillie

Former SWO
If NMCI didn't absolutely suck, it would be OS-independent. This is the year 2008, shit ought not be tied directly to your operating system but rather your browser and the myriad of smaller plugins that it can run and support cross-platform.

Any entity that codes applications be it client-side or web-based for specific operating systems is shit and stuck in the past.

However, that does not solve your problem, sorry sir, just drunk ranting. It sounds like you need the correct root certificates for the CAC reader to correspond with said websites/portals however, I have no idea if NMCI publishes those - most likely not.
 
ea6bflyr

ea6bflyr

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S.O.B.,
Did you ever get this working? Apple has released an update to MAC OS X: version 10.5.6 which "Improves compatibility with smart cards such as the U.S. Department of Defense Common Access Card." Just thought you might want to get the update and try again.

-ea6bflyr ;)
 
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Carlos Caliente

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Good news is NMCI is getting shitcanned in 09(?) as their contract is up, to be replaced with what I'm sure will be an even more unfriendly Windows based system.
And no, I've heard of no one getting their PKI to work with OSX. Would be sweet.
 
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