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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2008-08-30 18:45:41 UTC
  • Revision ID: teddy@fukt.bsnet.se-20080830184541-j8zru4q0rlz5a0hw
* mandos-clients.conf.xml (SYNOPSIS): Remove line breaks.
  (OPTIONS): Add <option> tags.  Moved option name to outside
             <literal>.  Moved synopsis to inside <term> tags.
             Removed <synopsis> tags.  Improve wording of "secfile"
             option.
  (EXPANSION): Improved wording slightly.

* mandos-options.xml (interface): Improve wording.

* mandos.conf.xml (SYNOPSIS): Remove line breaks.
  (OPTIONS): Add <option> tags.  Moved option name to outside
             <literal>.  Moved synopsis to inside <term> tags.
             Removed <synopsis> tags.

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<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
 
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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 "mandos-keygen">
 
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2008-08-30">
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<refentry xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
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  <refentryinfo>
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    <title>&COMMANDNAME;</title>
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    <!-- NWalsh's docbook scripts use this to generate the footer: -->
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    <productname>&COMMANDNAME;</productname>
 
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    <title>Mandos Manual</title>
 
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    <productname>Mandos</productname>
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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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    </authorgroup>
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    <copyright>
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      <year>2008</year>
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      <holder>Teddy Hogeborn &amp; Björn Påhlsson</holder>
 
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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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    <legalnotice>
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      <para>
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  <refsynopsisdiv>
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    <cmdsynopsis>
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      <command>&COMMANDNAME;</command>
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        <arg choice="plain"><option>--dir</option>
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        <replaceable>directory</replaceable></arg>
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      <group choice="opt">
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        <arg choice="plain"><option>--type</option>
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        <replaceable>type</replaceable></arg>
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      <group choice="opt">
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        <arg choice="plain"><option>--length</option>
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        <replaceable>bits</replaceable></arg>
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      <group choice="opt">
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        <arg choice="plain"><option>--name</option>
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        <replaceable>NAME</replaceable></arg>
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      </group>
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      <group choice="opt">
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        <arg choice="plain"><option>--email</option>
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        <replaceable>EMAIL</replaceable></arg>
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        <arg choice="plain"><option>--comment</option>
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        <replaceable>COMMENT</replaceable></arg>
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        <arg choice="plain"><option>--expire</option>
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        <replaceable>TIME</replaceable></arg>
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        <arg choice="plain"><option>--force</option></arg>
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      <command>&COMMANDNAME;</command>
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        <arg choice="plain"><option>-d</option>
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        <replaceable>directory</replaceable></arg>
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        <arg choice="plain"><option>-n</option>
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        <replaceable>NAME</replaceable></arg>
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        <replaceable>DIRECTORY</replaceable></option></arg>
 
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        <replaceable>KEYTYPE</replaceable></option></arg>
 
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        <replaceable>ADDRESS</replaceable></option></arg>
 
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      </group>
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  </refsynopsisdiv>
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      initrd image, but this, like most things, can be changed with
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      command line options.
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  <refsect1 id="purpose">
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        <replaceable>directory</replaceable></literal></term>
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          <para>
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            Target directory for key files.
 
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      This program is a small program to generate new OpenPGP keys for
 
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