Anarchic Development Efforts

Nokia, once the leader in mobile technologies really messed up big. They were poised (perhaps) to be where Apple is today with the iPad and the iPhone however they had various deeply seeded problems which ultimately caused the demise of their R&D efforts. This interesting article is a great read for technology project managers. One of the most interesting things I found was the mention of "anarchic development efforts" at Nokia which was a major factor leading to ultimate project failure. By contrast the leadership culture at Apple has been very disciplined and focused under the collaborative-dictatorship of Steve Jobs. On a personal note, this is why, when I am heading up development teams, I have no time for "anarchic development efforts". Developers that don't get with the program must be let go or the entire project will be in jeopardy. I think this article highlights a sterling example of issue.

Installing Linux 64bit driver for eToken USB

If needed install, opensc and pcsc-lite

yum install opensc pcsc-lite

Download the driver, unzip and install

wget http://download.fh-swf.de/dvz/software/eToken/Linux/Software/SafeNetAuthenticationClient_Linux_8_1.1.zip unzip SafeNetAuthenticationClient_Linux_8_1.1.zip cd SAC\ 8.1\ Linux/x86_64/ unzip SAC_8_1_0_4_Linux_RPM_64.zip cd SAC_8_1_0_4_Linux_RPM_64/Signed\ installation\ scripts/ chmod +x signed-install_SafenetAuthenticationClient-8.1.0-4.x86_64.rpm.sh cp ../RPM/SafenetAuthenticationClient-8.1.0-4.x86_64.rpm . ./signed-install_SafenetAuthenticationClient-8.1.0-4.x86_64.rpm.sh

You should see the following (choose 1 for English):

Searching SafenetAuthenticationClient-8.1.0-4.x86_64.rpm... OK Searching RPM-GPG-KEY-SafenetAuthenticationClient... OK Deleting existing key Importing key: RPM-GPG-KEY-SafenetAuthenticationClient Starting installation ########################################### [100%] ########################################### [100%] Adding Token security provider......done. Starting PC/SC smart card daemon (pcscd): [  OK  ] SafeNet Authentication Client installation completed. Choose Client Language: ------------------------ 1. English.....(En) 2. Spanish.....(Es) 3. French......(Fr) 4. Italian.....(It) 5. Japanese....(Jp) 6. Korean......(Ko) 7. Russian.....(Ru) 8. Chinese.....(Zh) 9. Portoguese..(Pt) 10. Thai.......(Th) Your choice [1-10] -->1 Installing Language code En. Done!

Check

opensc-tool --list-readers

The result should be similar to:

# Detected readers (pcsc) Nr.  Card  Features  Name 0    Yes             AKS ifdh 00 00 Find out which slot the device is in: pkcs11-tool --module /usr/lib64/libeToken.so -L You should see something to the effect of: Available slots: Slot 0 (0x0): AKS xxxx 00 00 token label: my label token manuf: SafeNet, Inc. token model: eToken token flags: rng, login required, PIN initialized, token initialized, other flags=0x200 serial num : xxxxxxx Slot 1 (0x1): (empty) Slot 2 (0x2): (empty) Slot 3 (0x3): (empty) Slot 4 (0x4): (empty) Slot 5 (0x5): (empty)       ----------------- Acknowledgements:  "user4668" for showing how to see the used slots http://bit.ly/1w2dUT8   Other Sources for the SAC: http://www.digicert.com/util/SafeNetAuthenticationClient-610-011815-002_SAC_Linux_v8.1.zip http://www.digicert.com/util/SafeNetAuthenticationClient.8.2.27.0.dmg