Hi, On Tuesday 01 May 2007 18:29, Hanno Böck wrote: [...] > Now, already some technical thoughts: > - We have, as far as I know, two kinds of chipcard-related driver types: > pcsc drivers and ctapi. > - At the moment, I can't see a reason why we shouldn't make it so simple to > just say "put all chipcard device drivers into one dir, let's > say /usr/lib/readers/". [...] At least that's what SuSE is doing...
For CTAPI drivers there is also another problem that should be addressed in the next step: I think it would be best to have a system group/user "chipcard" (or whatever name is feasible) analogous to the groups "disk", "audio" etc. That's because applications using CTAPI drivers need some privileges to access a device which a user normally does not have. On some systems access to USB devices is generally granted to any user who is logged in, but I think a finer granularity is needed. Basically this seems something to be discussed with those who are responsible for the various distributions (as might be the question about where to store drivers). Regards Martin -- "Things are only impossible until they're not" AqBanking - http://www.aqbanking.de/ LibChipcard - http://www.libchipcard.de/ _______________________________________________ opensc-devel mailing list opensc-devel@lists.opensc-project.org http://www.opensc-project.org/mailman/listinfo/opensc-devel
