Smart card authentication
IBM® Security Access Manager for Enterprise Single Sign-On supports the use of smart cards for user authentication in both personal and shared workstations.
How it works
Users
can log on, lock, and
unlock AccessAgent with
smart card and PIN only. Insert the smart card into the smart card
reader and provide the smart card PIN when prompted.
Note: The smart
card PIN is not related to the ISAM ESSO password. IBM Security
Access Manager for Enterprise Single Sign-On does
not manage and reset the smart card PIN.
To use smart card authentication, register the smart card as a secondary authentication factor.
Note:
If there are other software on the computer that provide smart card authentication features, they can conflict with the AccessAgent smart card authentication feature.
AccessAgent cannot detect if there are other software with smart card filters. A user can log on with a smart card to Windows by using other software, but the user is not automatically logged on to AccessAgent.