[SmartcardServices-Users] [Fed-Talk] Trying to attach smart card reader to VM on OS 10.8

[Ludovic Rousseau]

2012/12/19 Henry B. Hotz <hotz at jpl.nasa.gov>:
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> On Dec 12, 2012, at 2:21 AM, Ludovic Rousseau wrote:
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>> pcscd should be started in Mac OS X the next time you plug a smart card reader.
>
> This thread was all about how to prevent this.  Pretty sure if you want to prevent it, then step 5 is needed.  In fact the rest of the procedure was about making it possible to do step 5.
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> We wanted the reader connected to a VirtualBox VM instead of to the host MacOS.  I'm guessing by the time I cc'ed this list that some of the context had fallen off.

OK. If you want to _completely_ disable the automatic start of pcscd
in Mac OS X then edit the file
/System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.securityd.plist as documented
in [1] and reboot.

Bye

[1] http://lists.apple.com/archives/apple-cdsa/2007/Nov/msg00009.html

-- 
 Dr. Ludovic Rousseau