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<!ENTITY COMMANDNAME "plugin-runner">
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2008-09-01">
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2008-08-31">
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<refentry xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
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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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<holder>Teddy Hogeborn</holder>
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<holder>Björn Påhlsson</holder>
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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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License along with this program; If not, see
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<ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/"/>.
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<command>&COMMANDNAME;</command>
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<group choice="req">
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<arg choice="plain"><option>--help</option></arg>
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<arg choice="plain"><option>-?</option></arg>
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<arg choice='plain'><option>--help</option></arg>
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<arg choice='plain'><option>-?</option></arg>
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<command>&COMMANDNAME;</command>
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<arg choice="plain"><option>--usage</option></arg>
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<arg choice='plain'><option>--usage</option></arg>
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<command>&COMMANDNAME;</command>
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<group choice="req">
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<arg choice="plain"><option>--version</option></arg>
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<arg choice="plain"><option>-V</option></arg>
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<arg choice='plain'><option>--version</option></arg>
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<arg choice='plain'><option>-V</option></arg>
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</refsynopsisdiv>
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<refsect1 id="description">
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<title>DESCRIPTION</title>
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<command>&COMMANDNAME;</command> is a program which is meant to
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be specified as <quote>keyscript</quote> in <citerefentry>
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<refentrytitle>crypttab</refentrytitle>
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<manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry> for the root disk. The
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aim of this program is therefore to output a password, which
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then <citerefentry><refentrytitle>cryptsetup</refentrytitle>
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<manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry> will use to try and
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unlock the root disk.
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This program is not meant to be invoked directly, but can be in
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order to test it. Note that any password obtained will simply
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be output on standard output.
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<refsect1 id="purpose">
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<title>PURPOSE</title>
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The purpose of this is to enable <emphasis>remote and unattended
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rebooting</emphasis> of client host computer with an
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<emphasis>encrypted root file system</emphasis>. See <xref
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linkend="overview"/> for details.
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<command>&COMMANDNAME;</command> is a plugin runner that waits
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for any of its plugins to return sucessfull with a password, and
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passes it to cryptsetup as stdout message. This command is not
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meant to be invoked directly, but is instead meant to be run by
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cryptsetup by being specified in /etc/crypttab as a keyscript
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and subsequlently started in the initrd environment. See
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<citerefentry><refentrytitle>crypttab</refentrytitle>
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<manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry> for more information on
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plugins is looked for in the plugins directory which by default will be
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/conf/conf.d/mandos/plugins.d if not changed by option --plugin-dir.
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<title>OPTIONS</title>
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<term><option>--global-env
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<replaceable>VAR</replaceable><literal>=</literal><replaceable
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>value</replaceable></option></term>
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<replaceable>VAR</replaceable><literal>=</literal><replaceable
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>value</replaceable></option></term>
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<term><option>--env-for
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<replaceable>PLUGIN</replaceable><literal>:</literal
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><replaceable>ENV</replaceable><literal>=</literal
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><replaceable>value</replaceable></option></term>
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<replaceable>PLUGIN</replaceable><literal>:</literal
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><replaceable>ENV</replaceable><literal>=</literal
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><replaceable>value</replaceable></option></term>
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<term><option>--global-options
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<replaceable>OPTIONS</replaceable></option></term>
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<replaceable>OPTIONS</replaceable></option></term>
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Pass some options to <emphasis>all</emphasis> plugins.
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<replaceable>OPTIONS</replaceable> is a comma separated
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list of options. This is not a very useful option, except
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for specifying the <quote><option>--debug</option></quote>
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Global options given to all plugins as additional start
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arguments. Options are specified with a -o flag followed
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by a comma separated string of options.
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<term><option>--options-for
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<replaceable>PLUGIN</replaceable><literal>:</literal
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><replaceable>OPTION</replaceable></option></term>
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Pass some options to a specific plugin. <replaceable
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>PLUGIN</replaceable> is the name (file basename) of a
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plugin, and <replaceable>OPTIONS</replaceable> is a comma
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separated list of options.
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Note that since options are not split on whitespace, the
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way to pass, to the plugin
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<quote><filename>foo</filename></quote>, the option
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<option>--bar</option> with the option argument
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<quote>baz</quote> is either
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<userinput>--options-for=foo:--bar=baz</userinput> or
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<userinput>--options-for=foo:--bar,baz</userinput>, but
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<emphasis>not</emphasis>
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<userinput>--options-for="foo:--bar baz"</userinput>.
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Plugin specific options given to the plugin as additional
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start arguments. Options are specified with a -o flag
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followed by a comma separated string of options.
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<term><option>-V</option></term>
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Prints the program version.
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Prints the program version
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<refsect1 id="overview">
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<title>OVERVIEW</title>
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This program will run on the client side in the initial
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<acronym>RAM</acronym> disk environment, and is responsible for
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getting a password. It does this by running plugins, one of
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which will normally be the actual client program communicating
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<refsect1 id="plugins">
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<title>PLUGINS</title>
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This program will get a password by running a number of
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<firstterm>plugins</firstterm>, which are simply executable
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programs in a directory in the initial <acronym>RAM</acronym>
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disk environment. The default directory is
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<filename>/lib/mandos/plugins.d</filename>, but this can be
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changed with the <option>--plugin-dir</option> option. The
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plugins are started in parallel, and the first plugin to output
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a password <emphasis>and</emphasis> exit with a successful exit
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code will make this plugin-runner output the password from that
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plugin, stop any other plugins, and exit.
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<refsect1 id="fallback">
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<title>FALLBACK</title>
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If no plugins succeed, this program will, as a fallback, ask for
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a password on the console using <citerefentry><refentrytitle
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>getpass</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
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and output it. This is not meant to be the normal mode of
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operation, as there is a separate plugin for getting a password
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<refsect1 id="exit_status">
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<title>EXIT STATUS</title>
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Exit status of this program is zero if no errors were
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encountered, and otherwise not. The fallback (see <xref
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linkend="fallback"/>) may or may not have succeeded in either
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<refsect1 id="environment">
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<title>ENVIRONMENT</title>
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<title>FILES</title>
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>/conf/conf.d/mandos/plugin-runner.conf</filename></term>
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Since this program will be run as a keyscript, there is
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little to no opportunity to pass command line arguments
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to it. Therefore, it will <emphasis>also</emphasis>
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read this file and use its contents as
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whitespace-separated command line options. Also,
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everything from a <quote>#</quote> character to the end
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of a line is ignored.
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<refsect1 id="notes">