Re: Launching "Activities" menu, then typing => disables smart card reader

[tjoen <tjoen dds nl>]

On Mon, 2018-05-28 at 18:56 -0400, Louis Wust wrote:
> 1) Setting the scene: logged into GNOME on my work computer, which
> uses
>    Centrify Infrastructure Services for Active Directory integration,
>    with my work-issued smart card plugged into the embedded smart
> card
>    reader in my Dell KB813t keyboard
> 2) Drive my mouse to the upper-left corner of the screen, which
> brings
>    up the GNOME 3 "Activities" menu
> 3) Begin typing any sequence of characters on my KB813t keyboard
> 4) Immediately after typing the first character, the smart card
> reader
>    begins flashing its activity LED
> 5) After a few seconds, the activity LED turns off completely
> 6) Due to a security policy setting at work, my screen immediately
>    *locks* as a result of my smart card having been "removed"
> 7) Using the "sctool" command confirms that, indeed, my smart card is
>    no longer seen by the system, despite it not having physically
> moved
> 8) The condition persists until I remove and reinsert the smart card,
>    at which point I am able to unlock the screen using it + my PIN

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