Pavel,

You are a gentleman and a scholar! Moving the driver to that location, and pointing identiv’s alias to it (at /usr/local/pcsc/drivers/scmccid.bundle) is all that was necessary (reader.conf was not needed.).

For “totally not supported” that’s some great support. Thank you.

John Lamb (Contractor)

SRA International

National Cancer Institute

Center for Biomedical Informatics and Information Technology

9609 Medical Center Drive

Rockville, MD 20850


lambje2@mail.nih.gov


From: <pholejsovsky@apple.com> on behalf of Pavel Holejšovský
Date: Wednesday, September 30, 2015 at 8:26 AM
To: "Lamb, John (NIH/NCI) [C]"
Cc: "smartcardservices-users@lists.macosforge.org"
Subject: Re: [SmartcardServices-Users] OS X 10.11 and SmartCard Services

In order to be able to support upgrades to OS X 10.11, I will need to provide support for these card readers.

Due to /usr/libexec being off limits to SIP, i see the following options:

  1. When I create a new OS X 10.11 image, temporarily disable SIP during creation to place the drivers. Should I have a later “driver” conflict I will need to disable SIP to remove the smccid.bundle, which presents challenges at this scale.
  2. Ask the developers of smartcardservices if a new release will support these card readers (and I have delayed close as I can to the release of OS X 10.11 so that I can say its “Sept 30th somewhere.”
  3. Ask the developers if there is a better way to reference a non-SIP location for a driver (for instance, with 10.11 lacking pcscd (or at the very least, which pcscd coming up with nothing), is /etc/reader.conf still honored? In which case I simply need to identify the right CHANNELID and i can place the driver at /usr/local/pcsc/drivers/smccid.bundle) or a writeable location somewhere in /Library/ that smart card services already looks for drivers
10.11 looks for drivers in /usr/local/libexec/SmartCardServices/drivers, which is now preferred location for user-installable smart card reader driver bundles.  Moreover, /etc/reader.conf is honored in 10.11 again.

HTH,
Pavel