I found out that I can't use Yubikeys with PCLinuxOS. I was on their forums, and brought this to their attention. Unfortunately the head developer doesn't own a Yubikey, and He doesn't know what needs to be installed to make one work. I've been trying to help with this, since it appears that I'm the only one in that community that uses a Yubkikey to get into my youtube account. I've done some searching and I found.

The Arch Page on Yubikeys.
https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/YubiKey

I found the github page for yubikeys.
https://github.com/Yubico

I have tested my Yubikeys on Linux Mint and MX Linux. They work on both OSes. But there is something or somethings missing on Pclinux, and that includes what is the repositories. I am hoping that someone here will be willing to point me in the right direction.

You seem to have almost got there then stopped short. :/

The Yubico Support section has a search engine, within which "linux" can be searched for.

https://support.yubico.com/hc/en-us/articles/360016649039-Installing-Yubico-Software-on-Linux

https://support.yubico.com/hc/en-us/articles/360013707540-Basic-YubiKey-Troubleshooting

https://developers.yubico.com/yubikey-manager/Development.html

If your distro hasn't packaged it, and you don't want to compile from source, you still have the option to try the AppImage route.

Today I had to report to the PCLinuxOS forums that not even the AppImage will run!

This package wasn't installed: pcscd
When I searched for it, I found pcsc-lite, which is probably not even the same package. But I installed it always.

Next I tried running the appimage from the terminal.

./yubioath-desktop-5.1.0-linux.AppImage
/tmp/.mount_yubioaZmWtni/usr/bin/yubioath-desktop: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib64/libgio-2.0.so.0: undefined symbol: g_module_open_full

I did a search for libgio-2.0.so.0 in synaptic and they don't have that either.

/usr/lib64/libgio-2.0.so.0 is provided by the package lib64gio2.0_0-2.72.2-1pclos2022


Mint pcscd
/etc/init.d/pcscd
/lib/systemd/system/pcscd.service
/lib/systemd/system/pcscd.socket
/usr/sbin/pcscd
..... but PCLinuxOS has no "systemd", could be the missing function?

PCLinuxOS pcsc-lite
/etc/rc.d/init.d/pcscd
/etc/reader.conf.d
/usr/bin/pcsc-spy
/usr/lib64/pcsc/drivers
/usr/sbin/pcscd

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Everyone can read my entire thread at PCLinuxOS Forums Here:
https://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/inde...,157804.0.html

In a nutshell, the head developer has no interest in yubikeys, therefore He doesn't want to take the time to make them work.

Unless this changes, the Linux Community needs to know that PCLinuxOS is not compatible with yubikeys. So if you need to use a yubikey for your 2FA, you can't be a PCLinuxOS user.