Re: Smart card logon & remote desktop

Thanks Brian,

However, I can't really ask gemalto for some help. I'm a [very very small]
competitor, not a customer.
I use the standard windows GINA, not a custom one. I guess that developing a
specific GINA would certainly solve the problem. But - as far as I could
investigate - I see this issue as (maybe) a bug in the Microsoft GINA, so I'd
rather have Microsoft publish a hotfix than re-developing it myself. But I
could also be wrong...

Anybody from Microsoft, please help...

Dimitri

"Brian Komar" wrote:

Send details of the issue to hotline@xxxxxxxxxxx
They may be able to help you.
I have seen this issue with many legacy CSPs.
Are you using a custom GINA by any chance?
Brian

"Dimitri" <Dimitri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:4749B770-72FA-4FBE-B3DC-B5A66A1600D2@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Dear all,

I have a problem using smart card logon through a remote desktop
connection.
I can successfully login using my smart card, but when I remove the card,
the
station does not become locked whatever the state of the "smart card
behavior" option (note that it successfully locks the station when I logon
on
the computer locally). Removing the card has just no effect.

Then, if I try to lock the station manually, I immediately see the PIN
dialog (without going through the "windows security" dialog), but:
- when I try to enter the PIN, it fails to unlock the station (a generic
error message is shown).
- when I click "cancel", I have to unlock the station maually using
login+password because the GINA is not responsive to smart card events
anymore.

This appears with both a custom CSP of mine and with the ACS (Axalto) CSP.
However, I have a test environment (domain controller + remote station +
remote client) on which it appears all the time (it worked only once, I
don't
know why) and another environment where it does not seem to appear.
Unfortunately, my client is facing the same problem in his environment.

I tried to analyse the problem deeper and it seems the logon process does
not receive anymore smart card events simply because it does not manage to
get a valid smart card context. My CSP is called when I try to enter the
PIN
to unlock the station and I could see that it does not manage to call
SCardAcquireContext successfully (althrough it manage to do so for logging
on). However, once the station is unlocked, all applications manage to get
and use smart card contexts successfully.

I have seen two KB articles 875506 and 910482 that discuss similar
problems
but installing these hotfixes did not solve anything.

Note: this message was previously posted on platformsdk.security with no
answer.

Thanks


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