VMware View (i386) client does not authenticate with smart card to server

[Andrew R. Orndorff]

Description: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
Release: 14.04

Kernel: 3.13.0-24-generic x86_64
vmware-view-client:i386: 2.2.0ubuntu0.14.04
opensc: 0.13.0-3ubuntu4.1

Expected behavior:

On 32-bit ubuntu, inclusion of opensc-pkcs11.so under /usr/lib/vmware/view/pkcs11, either as a symbolic or hardlink, with the name libopensc-pkcs11.so, enables the view client to access and use a smart card (PIV, CAC or PIV-I) for authentication to the view server.

What happened instead:

On 64-bit ubuntu, the view client is 32-bit (i386 architecture), and it is not possible using the default mechanisms to install both the 32-bit and 64-bit opensc runtime libraries at the same time. As a consequence, it is not possible for the view client to access smart cards for authentication to the view server.

Potential path to resolution:

I) 64-bit native solution
  1) 64-bit native vmware-view client with 64-bit supporting libraries
  2) Either

     2.a) Export of all functions (beginning with C_*) for opensc-pkcs11.so to permit the library to be loaded by the view client

     OR

     2.b) Modification of the vmware-view client (64-bit) to load and execute the "standard" shared library entry point (presuming that the vmware-view client behaves in a non-standard fashion)

OR

II) Make it possible to install, and use all of the necessary 32-bit libraries to support all capabilities of the 32-bit view client on 64-bit Ubuntu installations