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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2008-08-29 05:53:59 UTC
  • Revision ID: teddy@fukt.bsnet.se-20080829055359-wkdasnyxtylmnxus
* mandos.xml (EXAMPLE): Replaced all occurences of command name with
                        "&COMMANDNAME;".

* plugins.d/password-prompt.c (main): Improved some documentation
                                      strings.  Do perror() of
                                      tcgetattr() fails.  Add debug
                                      output if interrupted by signal.
                                      Loop over write() instead of
                                      using fwrite() when outputting
                                      password.  Add debug output if
                                      getline() returns 0, unless it
                                      was caused by a signal.  Add
                                      exit status code to debug
                                      output.

* plugins.d/password-prompt.xml: Changed all single quotes to double
                                 quotes for consistency.  Removed
                                 <?xml-stylesheet>.
  (ENTITY TIMESTAMP): New.  Automatically updated by Emacs time-stamp
                      by using Emacs local variables.
  (/refentry/refentryinfo/title): Changed to "Mandos Manual".
  (/refentry/refentryinfo/productname): Changed to "Mandos".
  (/refentry/refentryinfo/date): New; set to "&TIMESTAMP;".
  (/refentry/refentryinfo/copyright): Split copyright holders.
  (/refentry/refnamediv/refpurpose): Improved wording.
  (SYNOPSIS): Fix to use correct markup.  Add short options.
  (DESCRIPTION, OPTIONS): Improved wording.
  (OPTIONS): Improved wording.  Use more correct markup.  Document
             short options.
  (EXIT STATUS): Add text.
  (ENVIRONMENT): Document use of "cryptsource" and "crypttarget".
  (FILES): REMOVED.
  (BUGS): Add text.
  (EXAMPLE): Added some examples.
  (SECURITY): Added text.
  (SEE ALSO): Remove reference to mandos(8).  Add reference to
              crypttab(5).

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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        "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
 
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<!ENTITY VERSION "1.0">
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<!ENTITY COMMANDNAME "password-prompt">
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2018-02-08">
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<!ENTITY % common SYSTEM "../common.ent">
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%common;
 
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2008-08-29">
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]>
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<refentry xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
 
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<refentry>
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  <refentryinfo>
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    <title>Mandos Manual</title>
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    <!-- NWalsh’s docbook scripts use this to generate the footer: -->
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    <productname>Mandos</productname>
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    <productnumber>&version;</productnumber>
 
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    <productnumber>&VERSION;</productnumber>
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    <date>&TIMESTAMP;</date>
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    <authorgroup>
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      <author>
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        <firstname>Björn</firstname>
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        <surname>Påhlsson</surname>
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        <address>
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          <email>belorn@recompile.se</email>
 
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          <email>belorn@fukt.bsnet.se</email>
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        </address>
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      </author>
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      <author>
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        <firstname>Teddy</firstname>
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        <surname>Hogeborn</surname>
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        <address>
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          <email>teddy@recompile.se</email>
 
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          <email>teddy@fukt.bsnet.se</email>
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    <copyright>
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      <year>2008</year>
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      <year>2016</year>
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      <year>2017</year>
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      <year>2018</year>
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      <holder>Teddy Hogeborn</holder>
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      <holder>Björn Påhlsson</holder>
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    </copyright>
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    <xi:include href="../legalnotice.xml"/>
 
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        This manual page is free software: you can redistribute it
 
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        and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public
 
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        License as published by the Free Software Foundation,
 
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        either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any
 
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        This manual page is distributed in the hope that it will
 
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        be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the
 
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        implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
 
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        PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License
 
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        You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
 
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      <command>&COMMANDNAME;</command>
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            Prefix string shown before the password prompt.
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