SmartSession is a set of binaries and modules able to secure a Linux session
using smartcards.

It can:

- secure the account access by providing a PAM module which allows to:  
   * authenticate users using their smartcards (auth part). This feature can
     work locally and with NIS (like the UNIX password mechanism);
   * lock the computer when the smartcard is removed (session part).

- cipher files and directories by providing a set of functions which wrap the 
  corresponding CFS (Ciphered File System) functions in order to use the 
  smartcard to store the CFS secret passphrase. A PAM module (session part) is
  also provided in order to automatically manage the attachement/detachement 
  of the ciphered directories during the login/logout phase.

It also provides some administration tools able to manage the cards and the 
user certificates database.

See smartsession(5) and /usr/share/doc/smartsession/smartsession.howto*
for more details.

The SmartSession suite can be dowloaded from:
	 
	"http://www.gemplus.fr/developers/technologies/smartsession/"

Vincent Guerin
and Ludovic Rousseau <ludovic.rousseau@gemplus.com>

See the copyright file for legal informations.

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