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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2015-07-01 20:01:26 UTC
  • mto: (237.7.307 trunk)
  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 325.
  • Revision ID: teddy@recompile.se-20150701200126-qb3f6c3jcas2f4og
mandos-client: Try to start a plugin to add and remove a local route.

* debian/mandos-client.README.Debian: Add setting of environment
                                      variable MANDOSPLUGINHELPERDIR
                                      to command line testing
                                      mandos-client.
* mandos-client.c (raise_privileges): Moved to top of file.
                  (raise_privileges_permanently): - '' -
                  (lower_privileges): - '' -
                  (lower_privileges_permanently): - '' -
  (add_remove_local_route, add_local_route, remove_local_route): New.
  (start_mandos_communication): Set SOCK_CLOEXEC flag on socket.  Run
                                the above functions to add (and
                                remove) local route, if the conditions
                                indicates it could help.
  (run_network_hooks): Use O_DIRECTORY, O_PATH, and O_CLOEXEC flags
                       when opening network hook directory. Do
                       TEMP_FAILURE_RETRY around opening of /dev/null
                       and network hook executables.  Move redirecting
                       of stdout and stderr to as late as possible
                       before fexecve().
  (main): Use O_DIRECTORY and O_PATH when opening temporary directory.
* plugins.d/mandos-client.xml (ENVIRONMENT): Document usage of the
                                             MANDOSPLUGINHELPERDIR
                                             environment variable.

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
 
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<!DOCTYPE para 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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<para>
 
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  This is part of the Mandos system for allowing computers to have
 
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  encrypted root file systems and at the same time be capable of
 
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  remote and/or unattended reboots.  The computers run a small client
 
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  program in the initial <acronym>RAM</acronym> disk environment which
 
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  will communicate with a server over a network.  All network
 
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  communication is encrypted using <acronym>TLS</acronym>.  The
 
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  clients are identified by the server using an OpenPGP key; each
 
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  client has one unique to it.  The server sends the clients an
 
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  encrypted password.  The encrypted password is decrypted by the
 
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  clients using the same OpenPGP key, and the password is then used to
 
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  unlock the root file system, whereupon the computers can continue
 
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  booting normally.
 
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</para>