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| author | Robin Krahl <robin.krahl@ireas.org> | 2019-01-24 20:56:26 +0100 |
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| committer | Daniel Mueller <deso@posteo.net> | 2019-01-26 23:10:08 -0800 |
| commit | 3f4b606513386ad8c8d52ef9e3874a7b19bd56cd (patch) | |
| tree | 1c7059f2c2a6ccbcc83bef3eb4bae6c50386577a | |
| parent | aae8315ea3986b40844959c4ec3d7734b124ddac (diff) | |
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Document problems in conjunction with nitrokey-app
If nitrokey-app is running, the device it connected to cannot be
detected by other applications. This patch adds this issue to the list
of known problems in the README.
| -rw-r--r-- | nitrocli/README.md | 16 |
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/nitrocli/README.md b/nitrocli/README.md index 3003c6b..76bb2cb 100644 --- a/nitrocli/README.md +++ b/nitrocli/README.md @@ -110,12 +110,17 @@ $ cargo build --release It is recommended that the resulting executable be installed in a directory accessible via the `PATH` environment variable. -#### Known Problems -Due to a problem with the default `hidapi` version on macOS, users are advised -to build and install [`libnitrokey`][] from source and then set the -`USE_SYSTEM_LIBNITROKEY` environment variable when building `nitrocli` using -one of the methods described above. +Known Problems +-------------- + +- Due to a problem with the default `hidapi` version on macOS, users are + advised to build and install [`libnitrokey`][] from source and then + set the `USE_SYSTEM_LIBNITROKEY` environment variable when building + `nitrocli` using one of the methods described above. +- `nitrocli` cannot connect to a Nitrokey device that is currently being + accessed by `nitrokey-app` ([upstream issue][libnitrokey#32]). To + prevent this problem, quit `nitrokey-app` before using `nitrocli`. Contributing @@ -152,3 +157,4 @@ the full text of the license. [nitrocli-cratesio]: https://crates.io/crates/nitrocli [nitrocli-gentoo]: https://packages.gentoo.org/packages/app-crypt/nitrocli [gplv3-tldr]: https://tldrlegal.com/license/gnu-general-public-license-v3-(gpl-3) +[libnitrokey#32]: https://github.com/Nitrokey/libnitrokey/issues/32 |