pcscd and OS X 10.8

[Wim Vandenhaute]

For all on OS X Mountain Lion.

There is an issue with the pcscd where when you boot OS X with your reader connected and card inserted, the daemon will not get launched properly.

Did not delve deeper yet but running pcsctest will say "Service not available".

Manually killing it so it gets relaunched will do the trick or just not connecting your reader while booting.

For all the eid applets out there, the result is the applet getting stuck on a "Please connect your reader" message.

A bugreport has been filed with apple, also hinting that it would be nice for em to update the ccid-driver and pcsc-lite for a change :)

As Ludovic states, the ccid-driver for example is 3 years old and by consequence is missing possibly bad support for 97 readers since t hat version :)

source: http://ludovicrousseau.blogspot.be/2012/08/mac-os-x-mountain-lion-and-smart-card.html

regards,

Wim.

[Wim Vandenhaute]

/Library/LaunchDaemons/org.opensc.pcscd.autostart.plist was the cause of this issue, trying to start the pcscd on demand conflicting with os x's

Not sure who installed this one, I know on my macbook locally I did as I try to install the latest pcsc-lite always myself but on other colleague's machines ( all but 1 :/ ) and my iMac at home it was also there so not sure yet where this came from :)

If I have any news on it I'll update

regards,

Wim.

[Koen De Causmaecker]

Hi,

Most likely installed by the ACR 38U driver. The installer enables pcscd at boot and disables the on-demand pcscd startup by securityd.
As far as I know, the ACR 38U reader needs the pcscd to be running when the reader is connected. We saw other readers that only work when pcscd is launched by securityd.

Koen

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[Wim Vandenhaute]

Indeed, that's the guilty one just tried it out.

Thanks.