Am Mittwoch 28 Januar 2009 19:02:39 schrieb Stanislav Brabec: > In case of Smart Cards, it might be GID writability for "scard" group, > allowing to run smart card daemon without root privileges.
if pcscd or openct should run as non-root, then there should be: * one way how openct/pcscd can access the serial and usb devices (please document what users with serial smart card readers need to do) * one way how users allowed to access the readers can connect to openct/pcscd I think these two things should be kept seperated, and "scard" is already used for the later case. on the other hand I was made aware off, that tools like the cyberjack debug tools, or applications using the ct-api interface such as moneyplex still need to access the usb devices directly. I think accessing usb smart card readers directly is a very old and outdated design (forgive me for using the word "stupid" earlier), but we can't help if major applications still work that way and know no alternative. Regards, Andreas _______________________________________________ opensc-devel mailing list opensc-devel@lists.opensc-project.org http://www.opensc-project.org/mailman/listinfo/opensc-devel
