Re: [Tails-dev] PGP Smart Cards

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Autor: Maxim Kammerer
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Assumpte: Re: [Tails-dev] PGP Smart Cards
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 1:19 AM, Patrick Bx <patrickbx@???> wrote:
> Ran into those same issues myself. Root is necessary unless the
> amnesia user is added to the pcscd group.


This shouldn't be the case when pcsc-lite is installed, since scdaemon
uses libpcsclite.so by default, and libusb interface is secondary
(although, on Debian GnuPG might be compiled differently). The "pcscd"
group exists only for pcsclite, see
http://ludovicrousseau.blogspot.com/2010/09/pcscd-auto-start.html:
“The group "pcscd" should be used only by pcsc-lite so only pcscd has
access to smart card readers. The pcscd process has only gained the
minimum rights needed to do its job (instead of gaining root access).”

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