[strongSwan] Trouble configuring vpn connection to strongswan using smartcard

[Nathan Hüsken]

Hey,

OK, in the end my mistake was, that I believed the pkcs#11 Plugin was enabled in charon-nm, as it was only enabled in strongswan itself. It works now.
Thanks for pointing that out and thanks for all the help!

Nathan


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On 19 July 2018 7:50 PM, Tobias Brunner <tobias at strongswan.org> wrote:

> ​​
> 
> Hi Nathan,
> 
> > I wanted to use the network-manager (in the end, the config has to be usable by people scared of the command line).
> > 
> > There is an option: "Smartcard". If choose it, it asks me for the pin of the smart card (but complains, that there are not usable certificates on the smartcard).
> > 
> > If charon-nm doest not support reading the private key from the smartcard, what is the point of this option?
> > 
> > What am I missing here?
> 
> You are confusing charon-cmd and NM/charon-nm (and perhaps charon).
> 
> charon-nm supports private keys on smartcards (with the already
> 
> mentioned limitations), as does charon (with more flexibility),
> 
> charon-cmd does not.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Tobias