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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2008-08-31 08:47:38 UTC
  • Revision ID: teddy@fukt.bsnet.se-20080831084738-uu70kayyt876982d
* mandos-keygen: Minor help text change.

* mandos-keygen.xml: Changed plural "keys" to singular "key"
                     throughout.
  (NAME): Improved wording.
  (DESCRIPTION): Improved wording.
  (OPTIONS): Split options in <term> tags into separate <term> tags.
             Use <option> tags.  Move long options before short
             options.  Uppercase replaceables.
  (OVERVIEW): Improved wording.
  (EXIT STATUS): Also cover --password option.
  (EXAMPLE): Add two examples using the --password option.
  (SECURITY): Improved wording.

* overview.xml: Improved wording.

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mandos-clients.conf.xml
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<!ENTITY VERSION "1.0">
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<!ENTITY CONFNAME "mandos-clients.conf">
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<!ENTITY CONFPATH "<filename>/etc/mandos/clients.conf</filename>">
 
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2008-08-30">
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]>
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<refentry>
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  <refentryinfo>
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    <title>&CONFNAME;</title>
 
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    <title>Mandos Manual</title>
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    <productname>&CONFNAME;</productname>
 
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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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  </refnamediv>
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  <refsynopsisdiv>
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    <synopsis>
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      &CONFPATH;
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    </synopsis>
 
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    <synopsis>&CONFPATH;</synopsis>
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  </refsynopsisdiv>
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  <refsect1 id="description">
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    <variablelist>
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      <varlistentry>
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        <term><literal><varname>timeout</varname></literal></term>
 
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        <term><option>timeout<literal> = </literal><replaceable
 
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        >TIME</replaceable></option></term>
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        <listitem>
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          <synopsis><literal>timeout = </literal><replaceable
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          >TIME</replaceable>
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          </synopsis>
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          <para>
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            The timeout is how long the server will wait for a
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            successful checker run until a client is considered
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      </varlistentry>
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      <varlistentry>
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        <term><literal><varname>interval</varname></literal></term>
 
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        <term><option>interval<literal> = </literal><replaceable
 
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        >TIME</replaceable></option></term>
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        <listitem>
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          <synopsis><literal>interval = </literal><replaceable
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          >TIME</replaceable>
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          </synopsis>
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          <para>
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            How often to run the checker to confirm that a client is
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            still up.  <emphasis>Note:</emphasis> a new checker will
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            as for <varname>timeout</varname> above.
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          </para>
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        </listitem>
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      </varlistentry>
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      <varlistentry>
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        <term><literal>checker</literal></term>
 
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        <term><option>checker<literal> = </literal><replaceable
 
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        >COMMAND</replaceable></option></term>
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        <listitem>
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          <synopsis><literal>checker = </literal><replaceable
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          >COMMAND</replaceable>
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          </synopsis>
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          <para>
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            This option allows you to override the default shell
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            command that the server will use to check if the client is
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      </varlistentry>
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      <varlistentry>
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        <term><literal>fingerprint</literal></term>
 
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        <term><option>fingerprint<literal> = </literal
 
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        ><replaceable>HEXSTRING</replaceable></option></term>
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        <listitem>
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          <synopsis><literal>fingerprint = </literal><replaceable
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          >HEXSTRING</replaceable>
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          </synopsis>
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          <para>
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            This option sets the OpenPGP fingerprint that identifies
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            the public key that clients authenticate themselves with
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      </varlistentry>
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      <varlistentry>
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        <term><literal>secret</literal></term>
 
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        <term><option>secret<literal> = </literal><replaceable
 
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        >BASE64_ENCODED_DATA</replaceable></option></term>
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        <listitem>
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          <synopsis><literal>secret = </literal><replaceable
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          >BASE64_ENCODED_DATA</replaceable>
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          </synopsis>
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          <para>
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            If present, this option must be set to a string of
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            base64-encoded binary data.  It will be decoded and sent
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      </varlistentry>
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        <term><literal>secfile</literal></term>
 
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        >FILENAME</replaceable></option></term>
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        <listitem>
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          <synopsis><literal>secfile = </literal><replaceable
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          >FILENAME</replaceable>
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          <para>
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            The same as <option>secret</option>, but the secret data
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            is in an external file.  The contents of the file should
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            <emphasis>not</emphasis> be base64-encoded, but will be
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            sent to clients verbatim.
 
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            Similar to the <option>secret</option>, except the secret
 
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            data is in an external file.  The contents of the file
 
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          </para>
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            This option is only used, and <emphasis>must</emphasis> be
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        <term><literal>host</literal></term>
 
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        >STRING</replaceable></option></term>
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          <synopsis><literal>host = </literal><replaceable
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          >STRING</replaceable>
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          <para>
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            Host name for this client.  This is not used by the server
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            directly, but can be, and is by default, used by the
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      </varlistentry>
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    <title>EXPANSION</title>
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        percent characters in a row (<quote>%%%%</quote>) must be
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        entered.  Also, a bad format here will lead to an immediate
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        but <emphasis>silent</emphasis> run-time fatal exit; debug
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        mode is needed to track down an error of this kind.
 
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    <title>FILES</title>
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      </programlisting>
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    <title>SEE ALSO</title>
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        <refentrytitle>mandos</refentrytitle>
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        <manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>, <citerefentry>
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        <manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>, <citerefentry>
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        <refentrytitle>mandos.conf</refentrytitle>
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      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>mandos</refentrytitle>
 
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