smart card + gpg only root

Dany dany_list at natzo.com
Wed May 17 22:00:53 CEST 2006


Many many thanks. It worked.  I'll try to get the how-to found on
fsfe.org fixe.

Dany





Michael Bienia wrote:
> On 2006-05-17 07:52:47 +0200, Dany wrote:
>   
>> Hello,
>>     
> Hello,
>
>   
>> I'm trying to get regular users to use smart card readers under Ubuntu
>> (dapper). As far as I know Ubuntu uses udev rather than hotplug so I
>> followed the instructions found at  :
>> http://www.fsfe.org/en/card/howto/card_reader_howto_udev
>>     
>
> I'm successfully using my smart card reader (a SPR 532) under Ubuntu
> dapper as a user.
>
> I've created the group "scard" and added my user to it (don't forget to
> re-login). Then I created a udev rules file suitable for the udev
> version in dapper:
> ,----[ gnupg-ccid.rules ]-
> | # udev rules for card reader
> | 
> | SUBSYSTEM!="usb_device", GOTO="gnupg-ccid_rules_end"
> | 
> | SYSFS{idVendor}=="04e6", SYSFS{idProduct}=="e003", GROUP="scard", MODE="0660"
> | 
> | LABEL="gnupg-ccid_rules_end"
> `----
> You have to change the idVendor and idProduct as suited for your card
> reader. It is placed in /etc/udev/rules.d. To test if it works restart
> udevd.
>
> Michael
>   




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