How to make the pcscd daemon load at startup on Lion?

Question

I've got an obscure cryptographic USB token that works pretty good with Lion except I need to run...

sudo /usr/sbin/pcscd -adf

...each time I want to use it because it doesn't load automatically.

How to make it load at startup?

Answer 1

The problem happens, because securityd (which is supposed to load pcscd) does not start it when you insert your card. Try editing /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/com.apple.securityd.plist and add -s aggressive switch.

The section should look like this:

<array>
  <string>/usr/sbin/securityd</string>
  <string>-i</string>
  <string>-s</string>
  <string>aggressive</string>
</array>

and then reboot.

This should set securityd in aggressive card detection mode. If there is a -s off or anything like this, probably just removing it should solve your problem.

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

add the symbol & in the end of the line