[Pcsclite-muscle] Deny card access for one application

Ludovic Rousseau ludovic.rousseau
Tue Jul 28 01:05:15 PDT 2015


2015-07-21 18:57 GMT+02:00 Florent <fdeybach at gmail.com>:
> Hello list,

Hello,

> On my Ubuntu system I use two different readers containing each one card
> which are also different.
> Both readers must be usable by my user.
>
> One of my application (FreeRDP, not to mention it) is capable of accessing
> those smartcard through the libpcsclite.so library. However, this means it
> can access both readers. And I don't want that.
>
> Is there a way to deny the access to one specific reader?
> Through udev rules? Through the Info.plist XML file?
>
> (Simply removing the reader from the Info.plist "works" but is not a option
> since I need to access the "denied" reader in another context while the
> application is running)

pcsc-lite do not provide such feature. All readers are visible to all
applications.

I imagine this would be a feature of FreeRDP to limit the resources
that are redirected. I don't know if FreeRDP already can do that.

Bye,

-- 
 Dr. Ludovic Rousseau




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