>> The pcscd daemon simply refuses to work if either HAL or D-Bus is not >> installed and running. >> > > why do you want to use pcscd altogether? AFAIK the Aladdin eToken 64k > are based on CardOS. That means, you can access them with the pkcs11 > library provided by OpenSC. That library is called opensc-pkcs11.so and > it is able to interface with OpenCT directly [1]. That was caused by my smartcard not being recognised by openct (see the thread called "eToken PRO 64k"). I presume that was as a result of the ready-made pcsc dependencies when the rpm was compiled by the FC distributors. I saw this today when I looked at the .spec file. This is done for a purpose though - the gdm-smartcard-plugin package (which is part of gdm) depends on pcscd to allow desktop login with a smartcard - there was no other way I could get my smartcard working unless I install pcscd, pcsc-lite, pcsc-lite-libs AND pcsc-lite-openct. Absolute shambles!
Naturally, I assumed that I would need the exact same configuration in initrd/initramfs. I am glad I was wrong... > To get this to work, > you have to compile OpenSC with explicit support for OpenCT. For > example: > > ./configure --disable-pcsc --enable-openct --disable-openssl --disable-zlib > THAT was the clincher!!! I did fiddle a bit with the .spec file to disable various (daft) options placed by FC distributors (I needed the rpm so that I could install it when I build the image), but after following your instructions (to the letter!) I was able to run this in a very limited system. Superb, thank you! I also managed to extract and build the chain of dependencies, which is not at all that big (about 10-15 libraries, most of which are already on initrd/initramfs) and the bulk of these is part of openct/opensc, pcsc-lite-libs and ctapi-common, so nothing major. In the next few days I will build the scripts for installing all files and automatically build initrd/initramfs and then will be in a position to test it. As I pointed out above I already tested pcsc-lite-libs+OpenCT+OpenSC (without anything else) and it works to absolute perfection, so hopefully the result would be the same when I test it inside the initrd/initramfs image. _______________________________________________ opensc-devel mailing list opensc-devel@lists.opensc-project.org http://www.opensc-project.org/mailman/listinfo/opensc-devel
