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The SC-Daemon should be started by the system to provide access to external tokens. Using Smartcards on a multi-user system does not make much sense expect for system services, but in this case no regular user accounts are hosted on the machine.
A client connects to the SC-Daemon by connecting to the socket named /var/run/scdaemon/socket, configuration information is read from /etc/scdaemon.conf
Each connection acts as one session, SC-Daemon takes care of synchronizing access to a token between sessions.
• Scdaemon SERIALNO: | Return the serial number. | |
• Scdaemon LEARN: | Read all useful information from the card. | |
• Scdaemon READCERT: | Return a certificate. | |
• Scdaemon READKEY: | Return a public key. | |
• Scdaemon PKSIGN: | Signing data with a Smartcard. | |
• Scdaemon PKDECRYPT: | Decrypting data with a Smartcard. | |
• Scdaemon GETATTR: | Read an attribute’s value. | |
• Scdaemon SETATTR: | Update an attribute’s value. | |
• Scdaemon WRITEKEY: | Write a key to a card. | |
• Scdaemon GENKEY: | Generate a new key on-card. | |
• Scdaemon RANDOM: | Return random bytes generate on-card. | |
• Scdaemon PASSWD: | Change PINs. | |
• Scdaemon CHECKPIN: | Perform a VERIFY operation. | |
• Scdaemon RESTART: | Restart connection | |
• Scdaemon APDU: | Send a verbatim APDU to the card |
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