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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2012-06-14 17:03:12 UTC
  • mto: (301.1.1 release) (237.7.272 trunk)
  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 302.
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* plugins.d/mandos-client.c: Don't use assert().  Use in_port_t for
                             port numbers everywhere except the
                             "resolve_callback" function; its
                             signature is forced by the signature of
                             the avahi_s_service_resolver_new
                             function.

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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 COMMANDNAME "mandos-client">
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2011-08-08">
 
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2012-06-13">
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<!ENTITY % common SYSTEM "../common.ent">
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%common;
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        <firstname>Björn</firstname>
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        <surname>Påhlsson</surname>
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        <address>
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          <email>belorn@fukt.bsnet.se</email>
 
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          <email>belorn@recompile.se</email>
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        </address>
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      </author>
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      <author>
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        <firstname>Teddy</firstname>
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        <surname>Hogeborn</surname>
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        <address>
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          <email>teddy@fukt.bsnet.se</email>
 
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          <email>teddy@recompile.se</email>
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        </address>
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      </author>
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    </authorgroup>
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    <copyright>
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      <year>2008</year>
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      <year>2009</year>
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      <year>2011</year>
 
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      <year>2012</year>
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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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        ><replaceable>PORT</replaceable></option></arg>
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      </group>
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      <sbr/>
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      <group>
 
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      <group rep='repeat'>
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        <arg choice="plain"><option>--interface
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        <replaceable>NAME</replaceable></option></arg>
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        <arg choice="plain"><option>-i
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        <replaceable>NAME</replaceable></option></arg>
 
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        <replaceable>NAME</replaceable><arg rep='repeat'
 
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        >,<replaceable>NAME</replaceable></arg></option></arg>
 
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        <arg choice="plain"><option>-i <replaceable>NAME</replaceable
 
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        ><arg rep='repeat'>,<replaceable>NAME</replaceable></arg
 
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        ></option></arg>
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      </group>
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      <sbr/>
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      <group>
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      </arg>
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      <sbr/>
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      <arg>
 
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        <option>--network-hook-dir
 
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        <replaceable>DIR</replaceable></option>
 
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      </arg>
 
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      <sbr/>
 
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      <arg>
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        <option>--debug</option>
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      </arg>
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    </cmdsynopsis>
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      communicates with <citerefentry><refentrytitle
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      >mandos</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
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      to get a password.  In slightly more detail, this client program
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      brings up a network interface, uses the interface’s IPv6
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      link-local address to get network connectivity, uses Zeroconf to
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      find servers on the local network, and communicates with servers
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      using TLS with an OpenPGP key to ensure authenticity and
 
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      brings up network interfaces, uses the interfaces’ IPv6
 
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      link-local addresses to get network connectivity, uses Zeroconf
 
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      to find servers on the local network, and communicates with
 
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      servers using TLS with an OpenPGP key to ensure authenticity and
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      confidentiality.  This client program keeps running, trying all
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      servers on the network, until it receives a satisfactory reply
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      or a TERM signal.  After all servers have been tried, all
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      will wait indefinitely for new servers to appear.
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    </para>
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    <para>
 
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      The network interfaces are selected like this: If any interfaces
 
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      are specified using the <option>--interface</option> option,
 
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      those interface are used.  Otherwise,
 
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      <command>&COMMANDNAME;</command> will use all interfaces that
 
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      are not loopback interfaces, are not point-to-point interfaces,
 
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      are capable of broadcasting and do not have the NOARP flag (see
 
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      <manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>).  (If the
 
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      interfaces and non-broadcast interfaces are accepted.)  If any
 
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      used interfaces are not up and running, they are first taken up
 
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      hooks</quote> are run; see <xref linkend="network-hooks"/>.
 
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      This program is not meant to be run directly; it is really meant
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      to run as a plugin of the <application>Mandos</application>
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      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>plugin-runner</refentrytitle>
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        <replaceable>NAME</replaceable></option></term>
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            Network interface that will be brought up and scanned for
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            interface.
 
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            use all appropriate interfaces.
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            If the <option>--connect</option> option is used, this
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            Note that since this program will normally run in the
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            initial RAM disk environment, the interface must be an
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            interface which exists at that stage.  Thus, the interface
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            can not be a pseudo-interface such as <quote>br0</quote>
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            or <quote>tun0</quote>; such interfaces will not exist
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            until much later in the boot process, and can not be used
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            by this program.
 
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            linkend="network-hooks"/>.
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            <replaceable>NAME</replaceable> can be the string
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        >SECONDS</replaceable></option></term>
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            state before proceeding.  During this time, the kernel log
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