* Daniel Kahn Gillmor ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> On June 15, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
> 
>  > Interesting. Can you try installing pcscd and see if it changes the
>  > behavior at all.
> 
> Yep.  installing pcscd makes the error message go away.  And removing
> it makes the message come back.  However, libpam-p11 appears to work
> properly for me without the daemon, and i guess i'd rather have a bit
> of noise during PAM sessions, rather than run a superfluouse daemon as
> root.  But neither would be best, of course.
> 
> Should i be running pcscd?  Am i using an unsupported configuration?
> Should libpam-p11 actually depend on pcscd?  i still don't understand
> the architecture well enough to know just what pcscd is supposed to
> do, and what features i'm missing by not running it.
> 
> Thanks for looking into this, Eric.

The opensc tool chain can use pcsc-lite service if they're
available. Clearly something is hitting a bug somewhere to cause that
message to come from pcscd. If you're not using a pcsc driver for your
smartcard then you don't need it. 

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