Re: Smart Card Not Read - Mac OSX El Capitan 10.11.6

Welcome to the Express for Smart Card forum! 

Often Smart Card issues are caused by OS X not using the correct driver to detect the reader or when there are remnants of old drivers or previous versions of firmware. This can be corrected by performing cleanup and reinstall steps below.

Cleanup

1. Unplug any smart cards and readers from your Mac
2. Open the Centrify Smart Card Assistant Utility
3. Press the Uninstall button to remove any Centrify bits off the system through the standard method
4. Navigate to this folder and move or delete any remaining tokend files here:
   
   

   /System/Library/Security/tokend/    (for OS X 10.10 and below)

5. /Library/Security/tokend/           (for OS X 10.11 and above)

    

6. Use the following link to make sure you don't have any other smart card software installed that may be interfering with things: 
   http://militarycac.com/macuninstall.htm
   
   
7. Run the following command to remove any potentially cached smart card objects from the system as well:
   
   

   sudo rm -rf /var/db/TokenCache/tokens/* 

   
    

Reinstall

Note: I would recommend double-checking through all of these steps - even if you think have done them before.

1. Once your system is cleaned out. Check that your CAC reader is also updated to the latest firmware available:
   https://militarycac.com/macnotes.htm#see_the_reader
   
   
2. Download and install Express for Smart Card:
   http://www.centrify.com/express/identity-service/smart-card-download/
   
   
3. Make sure you have the DOD certificates imported into the Keychain: http://www.centrify.com/downloads/products/documentation/mac-smart-smartcard/1.0.0/wwhelp/wwhimpl/js...
   
   To use the ones that come packaged with OS X, use the steps under: 
   - "Loading DOD intermediate certificates into the keychain"
   
   To download them directly from the DOD PKI Management site, use the steps under:
   - "Downloading certificates from the DoD PKI Management site"
   
   
4. Insert your smart card into the Mac and check in Keychain Access, the card should now appear correctly in there again.
   
   
5. Try opening your target website in Safari, if it still doesn't work, check with an alternative browser and let us know how it goes.

Please create a new thread in this board if you continue to experience technical issues after performing these steps.

-Engineer801