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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2014-07-25 23:42:53 UTC
  • mto: (237.7.272 trunk)
  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 321.
  • Revision ID: teddy@recompile.se-20140725234253-m11fdsv01fetbk51
Use the .major attribute on sys.version_info instead of using "[0]".

The components of sys.version_info can now be accessed by attributes
instead of by numerical index, so do that.

* mandos-ctl: Get major version by using "sys.version_info.major".
* mandos-monitor: - '' -

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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 "2012-01-01">
 
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2014-06-22">
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<!ENTITY % common SYSTEM "common.ent">
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%common;
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]>
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      </para>
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    </refsect2>
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    <refsect2 id="fakeping">
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      <title>Faking ping replies?</title>
 
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    <refsect2 id="fakecheck">
 
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      <title>Faking checker results?</title>
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      <para>
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        The default for the server is to use
 
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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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        <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.  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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        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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      </para>
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    </refsect2>
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  </refsect1>