Place USB and PC Card smartcard readers into user-readable group

The linked files are bogus, since it uses a script to set permissions, which udev can do itself.

The suggested rules are:

SUBSYSTEM!="usb", GOTO="ccid_rules_end"
ACTION!="add", GOTO="ccid_rules_end"

ATTR{idVendor}=="04e6", ATTR{idProduct}=="e003", MODE="0660", GROUP="scard"
ATTR{idVendor}=="04e6", ATTR{idProduct}=="5115", MODE="0660", GROUP="scard"

LABEL="ccid_rules_end"

Now that a correct solution has been found, what will it take to get this into Ubuntu?

Of course, it appears that a correct solution has not been found.

The example rules file creates device files like /dev/1-1 with the described permissions and ownership. It does not affect the files /dev/bus/usb/*/* which gnupg accesses, and so non-root users still can't access the smart card.

Hmm, this seems to work fine now. (though gpg2 still seems to have trouble with accessing the smart card as non-root. Modifications should probably be made to the udev rules files for libccid, which provides some rules for those devices already.

This belongs to libccid and not udev since ccid already has rules for these devices.

I have added a patch which sets the permissions as they should be. It does require that the group 'scard' exist though.

I (libccid upstream and Debian maintainer) plan to add this support in the driver.
I just don't know when.

The group I plan to use will be named "pcscd" instead of "scard" and is designed to be used by the pcscd process only and not by a normal user.

GnuPG implements its own and direct CCID driver. I think this is an error. GnuPG can also use the PC/SC API as any other (normal) smart card application. Using a direct access to the smart card reader is not the way I (as pcsc-lite and libccid maintainer) want to go. So this bug will never be fixed by me (or in Debian).

See http://ludovicrousseau.blogspot.com/2010/09/pcscd-auto-start.html