Help with Smart Card Manager

[John Wendel]

Steve Friedman wrote:
> On Tue, 20 Mar 2007, John Wendel wrote:
> 
>> Steve Friedman wrote:
>>>
>>>> I look at the menu entry and see that it runs /usr/bin/esc. I strace 
>>>> esc and see that it dies when it can't run "escd" (permission 
>>>> denied). I also see it looking for lots of other files that don't 
>>>> exist.
>>>>
>>>> So, at last, my question; does anyone have this stuff working, and 
>>>> if so, how?
>>>>
>>> What is the output of:
>>>
>>>  /sbin/chkconfig --list escd
>>>
>>> I don't run that code, but you might also want to do an
>>> "rpm -qfl /usr/bin/esc" to see what other daemons need to be running.
>>>
>>> (Then, as root, do "/sbin/chkconfig escd on" so that the daemons will 
>>> start on the next reboot and "/sbin/service escd start" so they will 
>>> start this time.)
>>>
>> Useful, generic advice; but it doesn't' seem to apply in this case, 
>> since escd isn't a daemon that is managed by chkconfig / service. The 
>> are only 2 executables "esc" and "escd" and a script "esc".
>>
>> It appears that one just runs "esc" and it should "do the right 
>> thing". The documentation says to run esc at the command prompt or 
>> click "Smart Card Manager" in the system menu.
>>
> 
> As I said, I don't run that code; however, I noticed that esc required 
> pcsc-lite, which does have a daemon.  Is pcscd up and running?
> 
> Steve Friedman
> 

Yes, I noticed that myself and installed pcsc-lite and it is running. 
It's  strange that I had esc installed without pcsc-lite. Looks like 
something broken in the installer, since I didn't install any of this 
stuff by hand, I'm just using a default FC6 install.

And the initial problem was that esc and escd didn't have execute 
permission. Which is also strange.

I now have pcscd and escd running, but I don't get any action from the 
card reader. I would expect to be prompted for the card's PIN at some 
point, but it isn't happening.

Maybe this reader isn't supported, which would explain why the vendor 
has drivers at their website (that don't work with Fedora).

Thanks for the help. I'll report back if I ever get it working.

John