Smartcards and You - How To Make Them Work on Fedora/RHEL Smartcards are a great way to authenticate users. They have a device (something you have) and a pin (something you know). They prevent password transmission, use strong crypto and they even come in a variety of formats. From your "card" shapes to yubikeys. So why aren't they used more? It's the classic issue of usability - the setup for them is undocumented, complex, and hard to discover. Today I hope to change this. The Goal To authen...