What happens to me is that securityd stops responding to pcscd. Just watch
the system log when inserting the CAC. I don't get any log when inserting
the card, but do get a log message when I remove the card.
Paul Nelson
Thursby Software Systems, Inc.
on 3/5/07 5:26 PM, Michael at email@hidden wrote:
> On Mar 5, 2007, at 4:50 PM, Brad Kuhn wrote:
>
>> I have been using my CAC for e-mail and Safari quite successfully
>> for quite a while. I just upgraded a couple of months ago to the
>> MacBook Pro. Lately, I've been having a problem with my CAC
>> keychain entry disappearing from my keychain after having the
>> computer up for quite a while, or after the computer wakes up.
>> Relogging in doesn't bring it back up. I must restart the computer
>> to get the CAC to reappear in the keychain.
>
> Look at the crashlogs in /Library/Logs/CrashReporter or maybe /Users/
> name//Library/Logs/CrashReporter.
>
> The best time to do this is when your CAC stops working, if you look
> in those directories find out which crashlogs are the newest, that
> may be the problem program which you can then report to Apple via the
> Bug Reporter at <https://bugreport.apple.com/cgi-bin/WebObjects/
> RadarWeb.woa> (you have to create an Apple Developer ID but that is
> free, just follow the right link or try to go directly to <http://
> connect.apple.com/>
>
> There is a good chance that in the first location you will find a log
> file for pcscd or maybe in the second.
>
> Also, if you open the terminal and type "ps -acux | grep pcs" when
> you first reboot you should see a line for pcscd and when the CAC
> stops working you may not see that line anymore, if that is true then
> it is pcscd that is crashing.
>
> I'm not sure about which other components of the OS are involved in
> the CAC that might stop working.
>
> Generally speaking nothing gets fixed if no one reports that it is
> broken and everyone assumes someone else will.
>
> On this list there may have been previous reports of the CAC system
> failing on the Intel Macs.
>
> Michael
>
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