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User documentation of Nitrokey's products
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Login to local Windows Account using Nitrokey 3 #205

Open anotherbridge opened 7 months ago

anotherbridge commented 7 months ago

So far I couldn't find any way to enable a Windows login with a local account. I tried an authentication using a User certificate but that didn't seem to be possible for a local account. Further, under the sign-in options I could see a security key and the Nitrokey 3 was detected. I could also change the PIN, but it wouldn't let me set it up for a login.

Is it possible to perform a local account login? If so, what is the procedure for that?

daringer commented 7 months ago

So far we know there is no way to do this without additional software that integrates the Nitrokey 3 into the Windows login-process. This means as of now there is no way to achieve this for windows. The most standard conformant way would be to use FIDO2 for that, but as it seems this is not available for standalone windows machines (yet?).