2009/1/22 Stanislav Brabec <[email protected]>:
> Ludovic Rousseau wrote:
>> 2009/1/22 Stanislav Brabec <[email protected]>:
>
>> > HAL recognizes Smart Card readers as unknown USB devices
>>
>> Why is that a problem? Why do you need HAL to know about smart card readers?
>
> HAL detects correctly music players, scanners, fingerprint readers,
> UPSes (well, just only HID). Why Smart Cards should stay unknown
> devices?

It is just to have a pretty name in a program listing all the hardware
connected to the computer?
Why not.

> Grating access to users physically present at the computer.
> It uses standard UNIX ACL, so it can apply to both device nodes and
> sockets.

We already have that.
What you want in fact is _denying_ access to users _not_ physically
present at the computer.
Why not.

Bye

-- 
 Dr. Ludovic Rousseau
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