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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2012-06-16 22:38:54 UTC
  • mto: (301.1.1 release) (237.7.272 trunk)
  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 302.
  • Revision ID: teddy@recompile.se-20120616223854-mfxkg6fgqr56sma5
* plugins.d/mandos-client (mandos_context): Removed "simple_poll"
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  (simple_poll): New global variable.  All users changed.

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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 "2015-03-08">
 
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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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]>
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      <year>2008</year>
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      <year>2009</year>
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      <year>2012</year>
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      <year>2013</year>
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      <year>2014</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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            assumed to separate the address from the port number.
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          </para>
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          <para>
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            Normally, Zeroconf would be used to locate Mandos servers,
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            in which case this option would only be used when testing
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            and debugging.
 
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            This option is normally only useful for testing and
 
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            debugging.
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          </para>
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        </listitem>
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      </varlistentry>
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      <varlistentry>
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        <term><option>--interface=<replaceable
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        >NAME</replaceable><arg rep='repeat'>,<replaceable
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        >NAME</replaceable></arg></option></term>
 
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        >NAME</replaceable></option></term>
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        <term><option>-i
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        <replaceable>NAME</replaceable><arg rep='repeat'>,<replaceable
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        >NAME</replaceable></arg></option></term>
 
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        <replaceable>NAME</replaceable></option></term>
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        <listitem>
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          <para>
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            Comma separated list of network interfaces that will be
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            use all appropriate interfaces.
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          </para>
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          <para>
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            If the <option>--connect</option> option is used, and
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            exactly one interface name is specified (except
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            <quote><literal>none</literal></quote>), this specifies
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            the interface to use to connect to the address given.
 
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            If the <option>--connect</option> option is used, this
 
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            specifies the interface to use to connect to the address
 
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            given.
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          </para>
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          <para>
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            Note that since this program will normally run in the
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            <replaceable>NAME</replaceable> can be the string
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            <quote><literal>none</literal></quote>; this will make
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            <command>&COMMANDNAME;</command> only bring up interfaces
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            specified <emphasis>before</emphasis> this string.  This
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            is not recommended, and only meant for advanced users.
 
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            <quote><literal>none</literal></quote>; this will not use
 
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            any specific interface, and will not bring up an interface
 
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            on startup.  This is not recommended, and only meant for
 
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            advanced users.
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        <listitem>
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          <para>
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            Sets the number of bits to use for the prime number in the
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            TLS Diffie-Hellman key exchange.  The default value is
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            selected automatically based on the OpenPGP key.
 
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            TLS Diffie-Hellman key exchange.  Default is 1024.
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          </para>
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        </listitem>
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      </varlistentry>
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              It is not necessary to print any non-executable files
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              already in the network hook directory, these will be
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              copied implicitly if they otherwise satisfy the name
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              requirement.
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            </para>
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        </varlistentry>
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    </para>
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    <informalexample>
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        Normal invocation needs no options, if the network interfaces
 
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        can be automatically determined:
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      <para>
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    </informalexample>
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    <informalexample>
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        Search for Mandos servers (and connect to them) using one
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        Search for Mandos servers (and connect to them) using another
 
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        <!-- do not wrap this line -->
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      It will also help if the checker program on the server is
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      configured to request something from the client which can not be
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      spoofed by someone else on the network, like SSH server key
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      fingerprints, and unlike unencrypted <acronym>ICMP</acronym>
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      spoofed by someone else on the network, unlike unencrypted
 
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                This client uses IPv6 link-local addresses, which are
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                immediately usable since a link-local addresses is
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                automatically assigned to a network interface when it
 
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                is brought up.
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