** Also affects: pcsc-lite (Debian) via
https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1034209
Importance: Unknown
Status: Unknown
** Also affects: pcsc-lite (Ubuntu Jammy)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: pcsc-lite (Ubuntu Kinetic)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Also affects: pcsc-lite (Ubuntu Lunar)
Importance: Undecided
Status: New
** Changed in: pcsc-lite (Ubuntu Jammy)
Status: New => Triaged
** Changed in: pcsc-lite (Ubuntu Kinetic)
Status: New => Triaged
** Changed in: pcsc-lite (Ubuntu Lunar)
Status: New => Triaged
** Changed in: pcsc-lite (Ubuntu Jammy)
Importance: Undecided => High
** Changed in: pcsc-lite (Ubuntu Kinetic)
Importance: Undecided => High
** Changed in: pcsc-lite (Ubuntu Lunar)
Importance: Undecided => High
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1971984
Title:
pcscd.socket is disabled after installation
Status in pcsc-lite package in Ubuntu:
Confirmed
Status in pcsc-lite source package in Jammy:
Triaged
Status in pcsc-lite source package in Kinetic:
Triaged
Status in pcsc-lite source package in Lunar:
Triaged
Status in pcsc-lite package in Debian:
Unknown
Bug description:
[ Impact ]
The pscc-lite package provides an open source implementation of PC/SC,
the de-facto standard to interface Personal Computers with Smart
Cards/Readers.
This bug is in the upstream debian packaging, and results in the
pcscd.socket being disabled after installation. This prevents
automatic startup of the associated pcscd.service, thus preventing
automatic handling of Smart Cards/Readers w/out manual intervention to
enable the socket (which doesn't persist across reboots).
This is especially painful for users that require Smart Authentication
for login.
[ Test Plan ]
Steps to reproduce:
1. If installed, remove and do a fresh install of the package pcscd
(the sole version released for jammy is 1.9.5-3).
2. Verify that the pcscd.socket is disabled:
$ systemctl status pcscd.socket
○ pcscd.socket - PC/SC Smart Card Daemon Activation Socket
Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/pcscd.socket; disabled; vendor
preset: enabled)
Active: inactive (dead)
Triggers: ● pcscd.service
Listen: /run/pcscd/pcscd.comm (Stream)
3. [Optional] insert a Smart Card or Crypto Token (e.g. a Yubikey or
Nitrokey) that's known to work on Ubuntu and verify that it fails to
work.
Repeating the same steps with a package built with the patch attached
to comment #27 should ensure that the socket is enabled, and that
interaction with a Smart Card or Crypto Token should work w/out manual
intervention.
[ Where problems could occur ]
This is a back-ported change from upstream and is a result of a bug in
dh_installsystemd (see comment #26). As such the risk is minimal.
The only potential risk of failure I can come up with is a snap that
stages the old version of the client library, as it would be looking
in the wrong place for the socket.
[ Other Info ]
This bug was originally reported against Ubuntu Mate 22.04, however it
applies to all derivatives of Ubuntu Desktop 22.04 LTS.
Note - while there's some disagreement as to whether this bug occurs
100% of the time across all 22.04 installations, it's pretty clear
from the upstream Debian bug and subsequent packaging fix that we
should land this.
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