safenet-linux

Introduction

How to configure SafeNet eToken in Linux

Prerequiste

Safenet Authenfication Client >= 10.0 installed
libnss3 and modutil (libnss3-tools)

Tested On

Ubuntu 18.04 (working on Chrome and Firefox)
Ubuntu 20.04 (not working yet)
Archlinux

Recover the safenet eToken lib path

Once SafeNet is installed, recover the path of the safenet lib:

$ find /lib* /usr/lib* /usr/local/lib* -name "*libeToken.so*"
/usr/lib/libeToken.so.10.7.77
/usr/lib/libeToken.so.10
/usr/lib/libeToken.so

We will use the /usr/lib/libeToken.so.10 for the example

How to configure Firefox

Ppen Firefox and go to the security preferences (about:preferences#privacy in firefox navbar).

At the end of the page, click on Security Devices and a new window will appear:

Click on Load and enter the following informations:

Module name: eToken PCKS#11 module
Module Filename: /usr/lib/libeToken.so.10

Click Ok.

Firefow is now configured

How to configure Chromium

Chromium does not offer a graphical interface to manage the PKCS devices. We will use libnss3-tools in order to configure it:

cd ~
modutil -dbdir sql:.pki/nssdb/ -add "eToken" -libfile /usr/lib/libeToken.so.10 # Will configure the token. Press enter if prompted
modutil -dbdir sql:.pki/nssdb/ -list # Check if the token appears in the list

If an error appear "NO DB FOUND", create the db:

mkdir -p ~/.pki/nssdb
modutil -dbdir sql:.pki/nssdb/ -create

Chromium is now configured

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