Le Sun, 12 Oct 2014 21:51:02 +0400,
Michael Tokarev <[email protected]> a écrit :

> Control: tag -1 + confirmed
> 
> 12.10.2014 20:50, Laurent Bigonville wrote:
> > Package: qemu
> > Version: 2.1+dfsg-5
> > Severity: wishlist
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > libcacard, a library to use smartcard with qemu and spice
> > (description from Fedora package: "Common Access Card (CAC)
> > Emulation") is now embedded in the qemu source code. Could you
> > please start building these?
> 
> Yes, I did quite some work for it to be packaged properly.  Upstream
> version was not quite ready for that, using many of qemu internals in
> a dirty way, now it is self-contained, but not in current 2.1 version
> still -- 2.2 will have it all in a good shape.
> 
> See, for example, these:
> 
>  
> http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commitdiff;h=2a0c46da967e5dc8cfe73b1b6fe7a1600c04f461
>  
> http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commitdiff;h=fd25c0e6dd1ed2aa932fa7ef814b32457bf270fd
> 
> and especially
> 
>  
> http://git.qemu.org/?p=qemu.git;a=commitdiff;h=ae9b65e873ac189154429a2488add46c33bfe651
> 
> But I'm curious -- what do you want it for?  I thought it is quite
> qemu-specific, is it useful outside of qemu too?
> 
> I don't really know what this stuff is and what it is for, so if you
> can, please clarify -- your opinion is important for me, from someone
> who didn't actually write that code ;)

From my understanding the library is needed if you want to allow a user
to use a smartcard for authentication inside a guest.

Both spice and spice-gtk seems to use libcacard as well. And
gnome-boxes also has a configure flag to enable "smartcard
support" (which seems to require the smartcard support from qemu and
spice).

http://www.spice-space.org/page/Features/SmartCardSupport

> > On Fedora they have added a libcacard, a libcacard-dev and also a
> > libcacard-tools package which ship a vscclient executable.
> 
> Yeah.  Quite dirty at that, as well.. ;)
> 
> Is vscclient useful too?  Should we package it separately?

Not sure about that, is we want the lib to be multiarch I guess it's
needed.

Cheers,

Laurent Bigonville

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> /mjt


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