beid-tool(1)
NAME
beid-tool - generic smart card utility
SYNOPSIS
beid-tool [OPTIONS]
DESCRIPTION
The beid-tool utility can be used from the command line to perform miscellaneous smart card operations such as getting the card ATR or listing the PC/SC compliant smartcard readers that are installed.
OPTIONS
- --atr, -a
- Print the Answer To Reset (ATR) of the card (output is in hexadecimal notation). format
- --name, -n
- Identify the card and print its name
- --list-readers, -l
- Lists all configured readers
- --reader num, -r num
- Select a reader (default = 0)
- --wait, -w
- Wait for a card to be inserted
SEE ALSO
AUTHORS
- beid-tool is based on opensc-tool (www.opensc.org) written by
<juha.yrjola@iki.fi> and adapted for the Belgian national eID card by
Zetes NV/SA (www.zetes.com). This manpage was based on the opensc-tool
manpage by Joe Phillips <joe.phillips@innovationsw.com> for the Debian
GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).