pcsc-daemon

Install latest/stable of pcsc-daemon

Ubuntu 16.04 or later?

Make sure snap support is enabled in your Desktop store.


Install using the command line

sudo snap install pcsc-daemon

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Details for pcsc-daemon

License

  • GPL-3.0+ AND LGPL-2.1-or-later

Last updated

  • 24 September 2020 - latest/stable
  • 25 September 2020 - latest/edge

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Generate an embeddable card to be shared on external websites.

Middleware to access a smart card using SCard API (PC/SC)

The pcsc-lite daemon in a snap

This snap ships support for all acsccid and ccid readers along with the pcsc-lite daemon, teh pcsc-scan tool and the scriptor commandline too to read/write to smartcards

The snap also provides a content interface for other snaps to consume the pcscd socket.

If you have extrarodinary setup rquirements you can place a configuration file into /var/snap/pcsc-daemon/common/reader.conf.d using the documented format.

Some readers will require you to blacklist the pn533_usb module, to do this run

 echo pn533_usb | sudo tee /etc/modprobe.d/blacklist-pn533.conf

and reboot your system.

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