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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2012-06-13 22:06:57 UTC
  • mto: (237.7.144 trunk)
  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 302.
  • Revision ID: teddy@recompile.se-20120613220657-qvq7c7nrndl3t413
* plugins.d/mandos-client.c (get_flags): Don't clobber errno.
  (up_interface): Removed; replaced with "interface_is_up".
  (interface_is_up, interface_is_running,
   lower_privileges_permanently, take_down_interface): New.
  (bring_up_interface): Return "error_t".  Use new functions
                        "interface_is_up", "get_flags", and
                        "interface_is_running".
  (main): Save all interfaces either autodetected or specified with
          --interface in argz vector "interfaces".  Save interfaces to
          take down on exit in argz vector "interfaces_to_take_down".
          Save interface names for DEVICE variable to network hooks as
          argz_vector "interfaces_hooks".  Bug fix: Be privileged
          while stopping network hooks.
* plugins.d/mandos-client.xml (SYNOPSIS): Changed --interface synopsis.
  (DESCRIPTION): Updated to document use of all interfaces.
  (OPTIONS): Updated description of "--interface".
* network-hooks.d/bridge: Parse comma-separated DEVICE environment
                          variable.
* network-hooks.d/openvpn: - '' -
* network-hooks.d/wireless: - '' -

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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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 TIMESTAMP "2014-06-22">
 
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2012-01-01">
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<!ENTITY % common SYSTEM "common.ent">
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%common;
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      </para>
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    </refsect2>
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    <refsect2 id="fakecheck">
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      <title>Faking checker results?</title>
 
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    <refsect2 id="fakeping">
 
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      <title>Faking ping replies?</title>
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      <para>
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        If the Mandos client does not have an SSH server, the default
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        is for the Mandos server to use
 
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        The default for the server is to use
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        <quote><literal>fping</literal></quote>, the replies to which
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        could be faked to eliminate the timeout.  But this could
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        easily be changed to any shell command, with any security
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        measures you like.  If the Mandos client
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        <emphasis>has</emphasis> an SSH server, the default
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        configuration (as generated by
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        <command>mandos-keygen</command> with the
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        <option>--password</option> option) is for the Mandos server
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        to use an <command>ssh-keyscan</command> command with strict
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        keychecking, which can not be faked.  Alternatively, IPsec
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        could be used for the ping packets, making them secure.
 
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        measures you like.  It could, for instance, be changed to an
 
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        SSH command with strict keychecking, which could not be faked.
 
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        Or IPsec could be used for the ping packets, making them
 
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        secure.
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      </para>
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    </refsect2>
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