On 1/21/09, Stanislav Brabec <sbra...@suse.cz> wrote: > Alon Bar-Lev wrote: > > I don't understand the motivation. > > Why do you care if readers are accessible by all users? > > > 1) There are applications, that need direct access to the reader, not > using pcsc-lite (example: cyberjack utilities). That is why it should > allow to access not only to pcsc daemon, but also to users.
This is why you have udev, right? I never understood this hal thing... Why do you need special keywords, while the devices are standard USB or PCMCIA devices... > PolicyKit can ensure, that only users physically sitting at the desk can > use the card. As long as you don't use daemon to access these. > 2) Up to now, HAL has no keyword for these devices and cannot report its > presence. > > HAL can easily recognize this device type (at least for USB). It allows > to write simple applications: If smart card reader/token is plugged, do > something (e. g. launch banking application). For which user? And what happens if you have several applications? How do you control which do what? Well... Maybe I am not the right guy to comment this, I don't have hal installed and use udev and acpid in order to manage my resources and it is much simpler and efficient. Thanks, Alon. _______________________________________________ opensc-devel mailing list opensc-devel@lists.opensc-project.org http://www.opensc-project.org/mailman/listinfo/opensc-devel
