Hello,

Le 24/01/2024 à 22:07, Ludovic Rousseau a écrit :
Le 24/01/2024 à 19:43, Ludovic Rousseau a écrit :
Le 24/01/2024 à 18:09, Laurent Bigonville a écrit :
Package: pcscd
Version: 2.0.1-1
Severity: normal
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-gtk-gn...@lists.debian.org

Hello,

When looking at the logs of pcscd, I see the following messages:

jan 22 09:47:37 edoras pcscd[1663]: 00000000 auth.c:125:IsClientAuthorized() 
Error in authorization: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.PolicyKit1.Error.Failed: 
Process not found
jan 22 09:47:37 edoras pcscd[1663]: 00000031 auth.c:143:IsClientAuthorized() 
Process 1565 (user: 115) is NOT authorized for action: access_pcsc

It seems that GDM is not allowed to talk to pcscd.

GDM has the functionality to detect whether there is a smartcard in the
reader and then use the gdm-smartcard PAM service instead of the
gdm-password one to perform login.

I guess that GDM should be whitelisted to allow it to use pcscd?

Exact.
Good point.

You can add polkit config file until I fix the issue.
https://blog.apdu.fr/posts/2023/11/pcsc-lite-and-polkit/

The fix is quite easy.
Create a new file /etc/polkit-1/rules.d/03-polkit-pcscd.rules containing:
polkit.addRule(function(action, subject) {
     if ((action.id == "org.debian.pcsc-lite.access_pcsc"
         || action.id == "org.debian.pcsc-lite.access_card")
         && subject.user == "Debian-gdm") {
         return polkit.Result.YES;
     }
});


What I don't know is if this new file should be provided by the pcscd package 
or by the gdm3 package.
I would say gdm3 but I am not sure.

I started a discussion on the pcsclite-muscle list at 
https://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/pcsclite-muscle/2024-January/001457.html

The problem is also present on Fedora 39.
It is surprising because Fedora has enabled polkit in pcsc-lite since a long 
time (2014?)

I opened a ticket at gdm upstream
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gdm/-/issues/904

I think the fix should be provided by gdm itself.
So I reassign this ticket to the Debian gdm package.

Bye

--
Dr. Ludovic Rousseau

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