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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2008-09-21 04:22:50 UTC
  • Revision ID: teddy@fukt.bsnet.se-20080921042250-r0qqjsbz2ulfo5le
* Makefile: Bug fix: fix syntax error.

* debian/control: Depend on "po-debconf".
  (mandos, mandos-client): Add "${misc:Depends}", used by
                           dh_installdebconf.

* debian/mandos-client.config: New; show note.
* debian/mandos-client.template: New.

* debian/mandos.README.Debian: New.

* debian/mandos.config: New; show note.
* debian/mandos.prerm: New; stop daemon.
* debian/mandos.template: New.

* debian/po/POTFILES.in: New.
* debian/po/sv.po: New.

* debian/rules (clean): Added "debconf-updatepo" as suggested by
                        po-debconf(7).
  (binary-common): Added "dh_installdebconf" to use "debian/*.config"
                   and "debian/*.template" files.

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<!ENTITY VERSION "1.0">
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<!ENTITY COMMANDNAME "mandos">
 
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2008-09-12">
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<refentry xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
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    <title>&COMMANDNAME;</title>
 
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    <title>Mandos Manual</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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    <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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      <holder>Teddy Hogeborn</holder>
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      <holder>Björn Påhlsson</holder>
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    </copyright>
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      <para>
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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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        later version.
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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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        for more details.
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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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    <refentrytitle>&COMMANDNAME;</refentrytitle>
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    <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
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    <refname><command>&COMMANDNAME;</command></refname>
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    <refpurpose>
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      Sends encrypted passwords to authenticated Mandos clients
 
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        <replaceable>NAME</replaceable></option></arg>
 
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      <replaceable>NAME</replaceable></option></arg>
 
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    <title>DESCRIPTION</title>
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      Any authenticated client is then given the stored pre-encrypted
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