Re: Unable to access to Yubikey after recent GPG changes

[Philipp Kern <pkern@debian.org>]

On 2025-06-23 12:20, Philipp Huebner wrote:
> Am Samstag, dem 10.05.2025 um 22:39 +0200 schrieb Yadd:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I can no more use my Yubikey with GPG aftre recent changes. I
> > followed
> > https://wiki.debian.org/Smartcards/OpenPGP instructions but nothing
> > succeeded.
> > I'm running a Debian testing.
> >
> > Did someone find a solution ?
>
> Yes I did: sudo apt purge pcscd
>
> Turns out you do not need pcscd to use the Yubikey's PGP applet.
> On the contrary: I now have way less hassle/issues and it works like a
> charm all the time.
>
> Colleagues had to delete their ~/.gnupg/scdaemon.conf though for this
> to work (I did not have that file on my systems).

Generally it's sufficient to temporarily stop pcscd. But also 
disable-ccid and pcsc-shared in scdaemon.conf should help.

(Not that I'm claiming that this is good UX.)

Kind regards
Philipp Kern