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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2008-09-01 08:29:23 UTC
  • Revision ID: teddy@fukt.bsnet.se-20080901082923-i2liq6t7warmu9xe
* mandos.xml: Enclose "RAM" with <acronym>.
* overview.xml: - '' -

* plugin-runner.xml (DESCRIPTION): Improved wording.
  (PURPOSE): New section.
  (OPTIONS): Improved wording.
  (OVERVIEW, PLUGINS): New section.
  (FALLBACK): New empty placeholder section.

* plugins.d/password-prompt.xml: Enclose "RAM" with <acronym>.

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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">
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2008-09-06">
 
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2008-09-01">
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]>
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<refentry xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
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      Any authenticated client is then given the stored pre-encrypted
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      password for that specific client.
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    </para>
 
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  </refsect1>
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  <refsect1 id="purpose">
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    <title>PURPOSE</title>
 
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    <para>
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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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    </para>
 
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  </refsect1>
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  <refsect1 id="options">
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    <title>OPTIONS</title>
 
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    <variablelist>
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      <varlistentry>
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        <term><option>--help</option></term>
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        </listitem>
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      </varlistentry>
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      <varlistentry>
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        <term><filename>/var/run/mandos.pid</filename></term>
 
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        <term><filename>/var/run/mandos/mandos.pid</filename></term>
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        <listitem>
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          <para>
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            The file containing the process id of
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      Debug mode is conflated with running in the foreground.
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    </para>
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    <para>
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      The console log messages does not show a time stamp.
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    </para>
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    <para>
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      This server does not check the expire time of clients’ OpenPGP
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      keys.
 
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      The console log messages does not show a timestamp.
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    </para>
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  </refsect1>
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      <para>
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        Running this <command>&COMMANDNAME;</command> server program
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        should not in itself present any security risk to the host
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        computer running it.  The program switches to a non-root user
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        soon after startup.
 
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        computer running it.  The program does not need any special
 
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        privileges to run, and is designed to run as a non-root user.
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      </para>
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    </refsect2>
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    <refsect2 id="CLIENTS">
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      </para>
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      <para>
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        For more details on client-side security, see
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        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>mandos-client</refentrytitle>
 
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        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>password-request</refentrytitle>
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        <manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
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      </para>
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    </refsect2>
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        <manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>, <citerefentry>
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        <refentrytitle>mandos.conf</refentrytitle>
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        <manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>, <citerefentry>
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        <refentrytitle>mandos-client</refentrytitle>
 
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        <refentrytitle>password-request</refentrytitle>
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        <manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum></citerefentry>, <citerefentry>
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        <refentrytitle>sh</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
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      </citerefentry>