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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2008-09-05 18:37:28 UTC
  • Revision ID: teddy@fukt.bsnet.se-20080905183728-l0m8v3vqa302uwrw
* mandos (main): Use EAFP with pidfile.

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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-client">
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2008-09-06">
 
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<!ENTITY COMMANDNAME "password-request">
 
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2008-09-04">
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]>
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<refentry xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
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  <refnamediv>
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    <refname><command>&COMMANDNAME;</command></refname>
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    <refpurpose>
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      Client for <application>Mandos</application>
 
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      Client for mandos
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    </refpurpose>
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  </refnamediv>
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      <filename>/etc/crypttab</filename>, but it would then be
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      impossible to enter a password for the encrypted root disk at
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      the console, since this program does not read from the console
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      at all.  This is why a separate plugin runner (<citerefentry>
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      <refentrytitle>plugin-runner</refentrytitle>
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      <manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum></citerefentry>) is used to run
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      both this program and others in in parallel,
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      <emphasis>one</emphasis> of which will prompt for passwords on
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      the system console.
 
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      at all.  This is why a separate plugin (<citerefentry>
 
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      <refentrytitle>password-prompt</refentrytitle>
 
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      <manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum></citerefentry>) does that, which
 
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      will be run in parallel to this one by the plugin runner.
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    </para>
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  </refsect1>
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      program will exit with a non-zero exit status only if a critical
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      error occurs.  Otherwise, it will forever connect to new
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      <application>Mandos</application> servers as they appear, trying
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      to get a decryptable password and print it.
 
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      to get a decryptable password.
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    </para>
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  </refsect1>
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