Windows 10: Use Smart card in Linux VMs

Hi, I've recently enabled hyper-v on my Windows 10 pro system that's updated (June 2019). I've seen that enhanced session mode is available for both the Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and the Ubuntu 19.04 templates from the "quick create" menu. This has the ability to access local resources from the VM when connected using enhanced session mode. By default smartcards are selected for passthrough to the Linux VMs.


My problem is that my smartcard isn't accessable by the VM. Previously I have used smartcard sharing on VMware workstation (I'm aware that full USB passthrough to a Linux VM isn't available in hyper-v), however my usual methods of using the SC for SSH authentication - for VMware VMs and on baremetal machines - doesn't detect the card/device at all. This is either the gnupg-agent method or the PKCS11 method for public key authentication.


My SC can be used for SSH authentication on the win10 host using putty, but I really need to use it in a Linux environment.


So far my searches haven't yielded any informention on this. The last time I tested hyper-v, enhanced session mode wasn't available for Linux VMs, even if they were created from an offical template in the quick create menu. Has anyone got this working? Or could you point me in the right direction for relavent documentation?


Thanks in advance.


(This could be in the wrong catagory...)




***Modified title from: Hyper-V, Windows 10 Samrtcard access in enhanced session mode***

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