Disabling windows smartcard login...

[fnoferi]

Hi all,

I've an application which manages smart cards, but I want to avoid stop
Windows XP checking for smart card at login or when the PC is locked.
Actually at login if it finds an inserted snartcard which doesn't
containt the logon certificates it shows an error message. If I just
ignore the message (or insert my smart card after login) everything
works. But why Windows should try to use my card for authentication if
I didn't setup its smartcard infrastructure?

How can I disable Windows smart card login?

The PC is in a domain, is it an Active Directory setting to be
disabled?

I checked local policies or registry values but nothing worked...

Thank you for any help/suggestion!
Federico

 

[Steven L Umbach]

Try uninstalling or disabling your smart card reader in Device Manager. I
believe as long as the operating system detects it it will prompt for smart
card but should give you the option to use password as long as the
properties of the user account do not requite smart card only for logon
and/or the security option for interactive logon: require smart card in
Local Security Policy/local policies/security options does not require smart
card logon. --- Steve

 

[fnoferi]

Hi Steven,

I couldn't disable smart completely because I need to manage them for
my application...
I should convince MS GINA to ignore smart card!

Thank you,
Federico