Hi, Am Montag, den 22.12.2008, 23:34 +0100 schrieb Moritz Schulte: > >> My main issue is that scdaemon is a meant to be run as a user > >> daemon, but is now used as part of system authentication. So it > >> needs at least a way to be configured system wise (WRT smartcard > >> driver), and the security implications have to be considered. > > I talked to Werner about this. And he basically said two things: > > * It's quite some work to implement the concept of a global > configuration file in SCDaemon correctly. Especially gpgconf would need > to be changed for supporting this. > > * It's rather easy to make scdaemon choose a default configuration file > (e.g. /etc/gnupg/scdaemon.conf) in case the user running SCDaemon does > not have his own SCDaemon configuration file. > > In any case, I guess we will have a solution for a future version of > SCDaemon.
Ok, as long as it isn’t forgotten. > >> Moritz Schulte said he’d do a bugfix release shortly after that, but > >> hasn’t done so yet. CC’ing him: Moritz, what’s the state of this? > > > > Is there any news on that front? > > I just did that. Poldi-0.4.1 can be fetched from > > ftp://ftp.gnupg.org/gcrypt/alpha/poldi/ > > It contains only some minor bug fixes and changes, no new features. > (will post an announcement message soon). I got a new laptop, and the new cardbus smartcard reader was not shipped yet – don’t know when I’ll get it. So there is a slight delay on my side. OTOH, as it’ll be usb based, maybe I don’t need the system wide configuration then anymore myself :-) Greetings, Joachim -- Joachim "nomeata" Breitner Debian Developer nome...@debian.org | ICQ# 74513189 | GPG-Keyid: 4743206C JID: nome...@joachim-breitner.de | http://people.debian.org/~nomeata
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