The OCF server, ocfserv, is a per-host daemon that acts as the central point of communications with all smartcards connected to the host. Any application needing to use a smartcard communicates with the smartcard through this server, which is responsible for handling all traffic to the smartcards. All APIs exposed by this project are internally implemented to communicate with the OCF server. Applications communicate with the OCRF server using a socket-based protocol.

At startup time, the server reads the properties file to determine the terminals and cards currently registered.

The following exit values are returned:

0

Successful completion.

>0

An error occurred.

Root priveleges are required to execute this utility.

/etc/smartcard/opencard.properties

file where server stores properties

See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

smartcard(1M), attributes(5), smartcard(5)