is it easy to setup online banking using linux??
 

is it easy to setup online banking with linux??

Online banking is done through the web browser. So yes. Its the same process as doing it in Windows. Use Firefox or Chrome for a familiar experience.

What bank, what technology?

There is online banking from online banking software, possibly including hardware readers of cards or security tokens or something like that. That should be more demanding to setup.

Some online banking only involves only the web browser like szboardstretcher wrote.

Combined with PIN and a list of TANs, or PIN and TAN via mobile SMS method.

Hello and welcome to LQ.

Linux is somewhat easy to use. It may not be easy to use securely.

Some distros may be set more secure as default. Try LPS maybe.

hutch7763,

As szboardstretcher says, online banking is usually done via a browser.

In the UK there is something called Trusteer Rapport which can be ignored when using Linux:
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...-a-4175578625/

I don't bank on-line myself (5 minutes walk from the bank) but I remember a couple of senior police officers in both the USA and Australia recommending that people use Linux rather than Windows, even if only from a live disk used for banking alone!

I've no idea what LPS is. I put it in to Google an apparently it's The Littlest Pet Shop. http://littlestpetshop.hasbro.com/en-gb/toys-games but I suspect that is not what you meant. It may be helpful if you explain what LPS is.

This is a very vague question. You may get higher quality answers if you provide details, such as the bank(s) you'll be using. The country you are in may help too. (Maybe some banks have different online banking systems in different countries in order to conform with local regulation. I've no idea if this is the case.)

I currently bank online using Linux with two different banks and have done so with a third. I have never had any trouble.

Ubuntu - Online Banking
 

I think your best bet as a noob to linux is Ubuntu - it's extremely well supported and very user friendly. unless you are a bit of a geek many of the other distro's can be a bit of a struggle. However! that said I'm on here because I want to learn more and I know that if I had stuck with a different distro like MINT (Lightweight) or debian i may be further along in my learning curve by now.
There is an excellent resource on distros and their history HERE.

As for banking on linux - there can be very little doubt that a linux OS is more secure than a windows one, and I personally do all my UK banking online via firefox on ubuntu with no hassle at all.

As has already been mentioned most true 'online' banking is done via a web browser and the web browsers of linux are the best anyway.

Good Luck

i have been online banking with linux always, without any problems/adjustments.

however, i heard that some banks require flash or maybe even silverlight for their online services.
in that case, i would quickly change to a bank that is managed by sane people.

ps:
it might be possible in some cases that one has to spoof one's useragent string to IE or some such. major browsers have addons for this.

If by "online banking" you are referring to "a bank web-site, protected by SSL and nothing more," then Linux should be able to run it identically.

However, as banks become more aware of the sophistication of online criminals, some are now shifting to proprietary plug-in based sites which are (very!) specific to operating system environments. Some enlightened banks are supporting Unix/Linux. (As they generally must, if they want their technology, in its various incarnations, to run on portable phones.) So, the answers that you get now, might not remain true.

I have a friend who works at a bank who recently bemoaned the fact that they can no longer run web-browsers on their bank terminals on the dull-hours when no customers are there. (They are allowed to bring iPads, although those machines are subject to inspection at any time, and must not use bank networks.) It is all in the name of security, and, of course, she understands this. I gather that being a bank-branch employee can be very dull, sometimes, and otherwise frantically hectic.

Common distros are not secure by default. I would suggest that if one wants to be secure then they should consider a hardened distro.

Is it that hard to use a search engine?? LPS (might add in the word linux there)

Is it that hard to type a few extra characters so that it is unambiguous what you are referring to, instead of using unexplained acronyms and leaving people to Google and hopefully figure out what you mean?

depends on the tools needed to bank online. I know that there are some that need you card put into a reader for authentication and those that are just browser based.

Not necessarily. At work our online banking is through a proprietary application provided by our bank.
Not everything online is browser based!