Bug#355274: #355274: openssh-client with smart card support
On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 03:06:53PM +0100, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 02:38:00PM +0200, Damien 'zaide' Desmarets wrote:
> > Where is the advance of the smartcard support?
> > That will make soon 1 year that hasn't changed.
>
> I don't want to create an additional package (I've just got away from
> that mess by incorporating Kerberos support into the main openssh
> packages), and I'm not sure I particularly want to add a half-megabyte
> dependencies to openssh-client itself either.
>
> The only solution I can think of is for somebody to figure out how to
> load libopensc using dlopen() rather than requiring it to be linked to
> normally; that way I could add smart card support without having to
> depend on another substantial library.
This is a shame. I would like to vote for smartcard support (but,
unfortunately, am nowhere near being able to investigate the sort of
modification you propose.
Is size really an issue with this package? Would another option be an
openssh-client-tiny package which doesn't link against any optional
libraries, for embedded/installer use.
It seems odd that kerberos support is compiled in this way, but other
optional features are not being considered; libkrb53 is, after all,
nearly a megabyte in installed size)
Cheers,
Dominic.
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