Comments on: Using a DoD CAC with Ubuntu and Firefox

By: chillman

chillman — Fri, 18 Nov 2011 22:29:28 +0000

I had the same problem with Firefox 7.0.1+ and CoolKey. The way to fix it is to somehow get a CAC working (I used a VM and the Lightweight Portable Security distro: http://www.spi.dod.mil/lipose.htm ) and download libCacKey from forge.mil (forge.mil requires CAC authentication, dumb huh?). Libcackey worked great once I got it.

Good Luck!!

By: brian

brian — Mon, 07 Nov 2011 16:26:24 +0000

I’m using Ubuntu 11.10 and I have everything up and running with the card readable using pcsc_scan. The only problem I’m experiencing is with the card in the reader, firefox will not open and if it is open and the card is inserted it firefox will crash. Using Firefox 7.0.1 on Ubuntu 11.10. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

By: admin

admin — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 18:45:12 +0000

You hippy kids and your 64bit.
Back in my day…:)
Thanks for the verification!

By: Brian Sulzen

Brian Sulzen — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 18:43:56 +0000

Just verifying that this DID work for me. Ubuntu 11.04 64 bit. As noted by @cdated, use ““/usr/lib64/pkcs11/libcoolkeypk11.so” if you’re running 64 bit.

By: cdated

cdated — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 19:15:43 +0000

Thanks, worked like a charm on RHEL6 64bit.

Only it was “/usr/lib64/pkcs11/libcoolkeypk11.so”

By: redfish907

redfish907 — Sat, 25 Jun 2011 21:43:27 +0000

Thanks for the great information. Some of the other instructions out on the net seemed a little more complicated — these are simple and work. No problems using these instructions w/ Ubuntu 10.04 LTS and an SCR3310 reader. I can access all AF and OWA sites without issue.

By: barry

barry — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 01:20:04 +0000

I can go to the AF Portal, but sites such as OWA .. the cert selection doesn’t show up as it does on the portal. I’m assuming my owa is picking the wrong cert. Any ideas?

By: matt

matt — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 03:20:25 +0000

This worked perfect in Linux Mint 10. I also found a dod CAC Plug in on militarycac.com

By: Sean

Sean — Sun, 14 Nov 2010 11:11:56 +0000

I got this to work with Ubuntu 10.10 using a dell keyboard card reader. The only issue i am having is getting it to read all of my certificates. Right now it will only read my ID certificate.

By: Jaan Sass

Jaan Sass — Tue, 12 Oct 2010 02:33:28 +0000

This is was great easy to use instructions I fired it up the first time after downloading all I needed from synaptic it was pretty easy to follow the instructions and works great in lucid ubuntu 10.4