[aklug] Re: Common Access Cards - Technical Aspects

From: Royce Williams <royce@alaska.net>
Date: Mon Jun 28 2010 - 12:47:54 AKDT

Christopher Howard said, on 06/28/2010 12:11 PM:
>
>> Aren't these users effectively asking you, "Please create unattended
>> login for a system designed to require attended login" ?
>
> Well, my boss doesn't mind being at the computer with the CAC card
> inserted during the downloads. He just thinks that if there are 30
> things that need to be downloaded each week, he shouldn't have to
> manually click on every single one himself. If a web browser can
> download stuff from a CAC-enabled site, why shouldn't a command-line
> tool (being run by a script) be able to do it?
>
> Anyway, that's the rationale handed-down to me, and it makes sense.

Got it - it's for automating the tedium of attended download. Carry on,
then. :-)

Royce
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