The OCF server, ocfserv, is a per-host daemon that acts as the central point of communications with all smartcards connected to the host. Applications that need to use a smartcard can do so by using the APIs in libsmartcard.so or smartcard.jar. The internal implementation of these APIs communicates with ocfserv to perform the requested function.

inetd(1M) automatically starts the ocfserv command when it is needed. Once started, ocfserv runs forever. If ocfserv is killed or crashes, it restarts automatically if necessary.

Because ocfserv is run automatically, there really is not a reason to run it by manually. You must have root priveleges to execute this utility.

The following options are supported:

-D

Run ocfserv in debug mode.

-p path

Specify property file name.

The following exit values are returned:

0

Successful completion.

>0

An error occurred.

/etc/smartcard/opencard.properties

File where server stores properties

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

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