----- Original Message ----- > Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos: > > > I remember I have practical issues with polkit authentication enabled, > > and that why it was explicitly disabled. It's been some time and I may > > be wrong, but you may know better whether an application (e.g. a gnome > > component) could potentially use a single pcscd connection for multiple > > requests sent in parallel. If Stanislav has, however, tested such use > > cases and they cause no issue I have no problem with the change. > > Well, in this case, please disable it by changing "auth_admin" to "no" > (my second patch in the thread). > > Yes, "auth_admin" still causes issues: Second app is waiting until you > authorize first waiting app. Then second app wakes, and asks for > password as well. And you will be asked twice. First time to obtain > permission to access the reader, second time to access the card. > This is ugly, but it is the correct behavior of "auth_admin".
It is not ugly, it is a description of a best case scenario. There are multiple scenarios where that would break a lot of things if a user don't enter a password at the prompt. I'd suggest to keep that patch system specific. regards, Nikos _______________________________________________ Pcsclite-muscle mailing list [email protected] http://lists.alioth.debian.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/pcsclite-muscle
