[Pcsclite-muscle] chrome flatpak and pcscd
Daffy Duck
suffsuccotash at gmail.com
Sun Mar 31 16:35:42 PDT 2024
Ok, I have followed the instructions on there and now I run:
flatpak run fr.apdu.pcsc_scan
PC/SC device scanner
V 1.7.1 (c) 2001-2022, Ludovic Rousseau <ludovic.rousseau at free.fr>
Using reader plug'n play mechanism
Scanning present readers...
0: SCM Microsystems Inc. SCR 331 [CCID Interface] (604026F5) 00 00
Sun Mar 31 18:31:36 2024
Reader 0: SCM Microsystems Inc. SCR 331 [CCID Interface] (604026F5) 00
00
Event number: 0
Card state: Card inserted, Shared Mode,
ATR: 3B F9 18 00 00 00 53 43 45 37 20 03 00 20 46
/
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But how do I now get chrome to recognize the CAC reader again? I used
flatseal and added ~/.pki/nssdb
Do I need to do anything else?
On Sun, 2024-03-31 at 22:53 +0000, Marcin Cieslak wrote:
> On Sun, 31 Mar 2024, Daffy Duck wrote:
>
> > but the browser doesn't see it. Is there something else I need to do
> > to get smart card working from chrome flatpak?
>
> I think the whole idea of flatpak is to isolate the browser from the environment?
>
> https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/4066
> https://github.com/flatpak/flatpak/issues/4723
> https://github.com/LudovicRousseau/PCSC/issues/118
>
> There are workarounds:
>
> https://blog.apdu.fr/posts/2022/02/accessing-smart-cards-from-inside/
>
> Not easy, but apparently possible. (I use pcscd with Firefox and chromium
> on FreeBSD without major issues, no clue about Fedora).
>
> Marcin
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