Hello, As listed on the pcsc-lite TODO file [1] I would like to run pcscd as a normal user instead of root. To do this I need to: 1. select a normal user id or group id to use 2. write a udev (or whatever hotplug mechanism is used) file to set the access rights of the USB reader device when connected
Point 2 should not be too hard. But after reading "OpenCT, Operating Systems: General Notes" [2] I am not too sure :-) For point 1 I would like to reuse the "scard" group already used by OpenCT. The idea is to: a. set the smart card reader devices in the group "scard" and give group read/write access. So a process in the group "scard" can use the device. b. run pcscd as a normal user in the group "scard". So pcscd can access the devices configured in point a. My problem is that in OpenCT the "scard" group is used to give access to _users_, not to a system daemon. So a user in group "scard" could access the reader directly and bypass pcscd. But since both OpenCT and pcsc-lite should not be installed at the same time the problem is very limited. I would like to have comments from users of OpenCT and users of pcsc-lite about my plans. Maybe I missed something and a better solution is available. Thanks, [1] http://svn.debian.org/wsvn/pcsclite/trunk/PCSC/TODO [2] http://www.opensc-project.org/openct/wiki/OperatingSystems -- Dr. Ludovic Rousseau _______________________________________________ opensc-devel mailing list opensc-devel@lists.opensc-project.org http://www.opensc-project.org/mailman/listinfo/opensc-devel
