Launch with gksu or gksudo on Debian / Ubuntu

[chmac]

Not sure about other distros, but on Ubuntu the tool only works if run as root. The .desktop file could be updated to exec gksu yubikey-personalization-gui or gksudo yubikey-personalization-gui which would run it as root by default. Might save new users from confusion.

That or report a permissions error as the command line util does, currently on Ubuntu 12.04 the app launches fine but says only "No YubiKey inserted".

[dainnilsson]

Better than running as root may be to set up the permissions for the user to access the YubiKey, which can be done using the included (in yubikey-personalization) udev rules. I thought we had better documentation describing the process for doing so, but I can't seem to find it now, so that should be improved both for the command line tool as well as the gui.

[chmac]

If the .deb set up the udev rules, that would be nice. Not sure how that would work practically though. One would presumably have to make a decision as to which users are allowed. Maybe based on a new "yubikey" group? Seems like a lot of complication versus requiring root permissions. I can see the merits of both options though.

[dainnilsson]

I agree. I've added a note to the yubikey-personalization Read Me about running either as root or setting the udev permissions.

At least having a clearer error message from the tool would be a nice improvement.

[klali]

The yubikey-personalization package includes an udev file for setting the permissions. It might be an idea to move that to the library package instead..

[klali]

This (should/will) be solved by moving the udev rules for yubikeys from yubikey-personalization to libykpers.

[chmac]

Alas, this update gave me the following error on apt-get upgrade:

E: /var/cache/apt/archives/libykpers-1-1_1.11.3-1~ppa2~precise1_amd64.deb: trying to overwrite '/lib/udev/rules.d/70-yubikey.rules', which is also in package yubikey-personalization 1.11.3-1~ppa1~precise1

Then apt was a little broken, for example:

$ sudo apt-get autoremove Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree
Reading state information... Done You might want to run ‘apt-get -f install’ to correct these. The following packages have unmet dependencies. yubikey-personalization : Depends: libykpers-1-1 (>= 1.11.3-1~ppa2~precise1) but 1.11.3-1~ppa1~precise1 is installed E: Unmet dependencies. Try using -f.

In the end sudo apt-get remove yubikey-personalization and sudo apt-get install yubikey-personalization resolved the issues.

[klali]

Yes, I messed up the moving files stuff.. the new version of the library should replace the old version of yubikey-personalization. I uploaded a new version to the ppa now that should be better..