Sun Ray Thin Clients has been widely popular in Government applications for a while now.  With the introduction of HSPD-12/PIV cards,  I had multiple requests from my SI friends asking me to verify whether PIV cards work on SunRays for hotdesking and enabling PKI based authentication.  As on today, Sun Ray Session Server 4.0 does’nt officially support PIV cards …particularly I meant PIV cards from Obethur and GemAlto.  Here is the SunRay-PIV-OberthurCards-CheatSheet and also download the Oberthur Card Profile for SunRays – I prepared this cheatsheet based on my first successful attempt using Oberthur PIV on SunRays to verify that  IT WORKS for hotdesking/session mobility and desktop authentication using OpenSC PAM.

For those curious to know about OpenSC support for PAM authentication on Sun Rays – make a note OpenSC.org does support Solaris 10 and Sun Rays that includes a PAM module. Also, here is some useful information about PIV card support in OpenSC.

BTW, Sun Rays already provides support for DoD CAC cards.

Enjoy.

Update: The download URL changed to Sun ThinkThin blog.