At some point in time, Red Hat snuck in experimental support for NSS in OpenSSH. What does that give us? Smart Card support! This article will describe how to use it.

In another blog post, I mentioned how to configure NSS and OpenSSL; you should take a look at that if you are unfamiliar with the process, because I assume that is prerequisite knowledge. I will also assume you have a basic understanding of how public key authentication in SSH works.

Here are the steps to the process:

1. Copy the NSS databases to .ssh

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