[pkg-gnupg-maint] Bug#703062: please add udev rules for cardman 4040

[NIIBE Yutaka]

Hello,

Sorry to reply old bug report.

On Thu, 14 Mar 2013 21:13:38 +0100 Reinhard Müller <reinhard at fsfe.org> wrote:
> Package: gnupg
> Version: 1.4.11-3
> 
> Dear Maintainer,
> 
> the Omnikey CardMan 4040 is a nice PCMCIA smart card reader supported by gpg. 
> It would work out of the box *if* only normal users had read/write permission 
> on /dev/cmx0.
> 
> So please add an udev rule like
> 
>   ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="cardman_4040", GROUP="plugdev", MODE="0660"
> 
> to the ruleset shipped with gnupg.
> 
> There are several howtos out in the net telling to explicitly add these lines 
> manually if the reader should be used, so having it there by default would 
> greatly increase the usefulness of gnupg in Debian for the people using this 
> widely used card reader.

While I haven't remove the support of CardMan 4040 in GnuPG, I don't
know if it still works or not.  Actually, we are considering the removal
of this card reader support.

If you still have the device, please let me know if it works.  I'm
afraid it's too old to support current version of OpenPGP card with
RSA key length >= 2048.
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