Smart card works with GPG v1 but not with GPG v2 on Ubuntu

Werner Koch wk at gnupg.org
Sun Jun 30 23:40:55 CEST 2013


On Sun, 30 Jun 2013 11:04,
cloudpg at informationelle-selbstbestimmung-im-internet.de said:

> No.  Actually, I don’t know anything about the Crypto Stick but I’m
> using an OpenPGP smartcard.  I don’t need pcscd at all.  In fact, on

However, you need make to sure that scdaemon has the permission to
write to the smartCard reader USB device.  This is a matter of Proper
Hotplug/udev/systemd/whatever configuration.

Pcscd runs as root an thus you won't run into permission problems.


Salam-Shalom,

   Werner

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