Installing The Enterprise Security Client; Supported Platforms For The Client; Supported Smart Cards; Installing And Uninstalling The Enterprise Security Client On Red Hat Enterprise Linux - Red Hat CERTIFICATE SYSTEM 8.0 - MANAGING SMART CARDS WITH THE ENTERPRISE SECURITY CLIENT 1-23-2010 Manual

Managing smart cards with the enterprise security client

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Chapter 2.

Installing the Enterprise Security Client

The Enterprise Security Client is packaged as a set of installation executables or RPMs and other files

that are part of the complete Red Hat Certificate System distribution. These are listed in the installation

chapter of the Certificate System Administrator's Guide.

The Enterprise Security Client interface is supported on the following platforms:

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 (x86)

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.3 (x86_64)

• Microsoft Windows Vista 32-bit

• Microsoft Windows Vista 64-bit

• Microsoft Windows XP 32-bit

• Microsoft Windows XP 64-bit

Enterprise Security Client supports smart cards which are JavaCard 2.1 or higher and Global Platform

2.01-compliant. Certificate System was tested using the following cards:

• Safenet 330J Java smart cards

• Gemalto 64K V2 tokens, both as a smart card and GemPCKey USB form factor key

Smart card testing was conducted using the SCM SCR331 CCID reader.

The only card manager applet supported with Certificate System is the CoolKey applet, one of the

packages included and installed with Red Hat Certificate System 8.0.

2.3. Installing and Uninstalling the Enterprise Security

Client on Red Hat Enterprise Linux

The first step in installing the Enterprise Security Client is to download the required packages. The

Certificate System Administrator's Guide explains how to retrieve these RPMs and other files through

the Red Hat Certificate System 8.0 (AS v.4 for x86) or Red Hat Certificate System 8.0 (ES v.4 for

x86) Red Hat Network channels. There are two ways to obtain the packages:

• Downloading an ISO image or packages through the Red Hat Network channel

• Using the Red Hat yum utility

The preferred method of obtaining RPMs is using the yum command-line utility, as follows:

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