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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2012-06-23 00:58:49 UTC
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  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 303.
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* clients.conf: Convert all time intervals to new RFC 3339 syntax.
* mandos: All client options for time intervals now take an RFC 3339
          duration.
  (rfc3339_duration_to_delta): New function.
  (string_to_delta): Try rfc3339_duration_to_delta first.
* mandos-clients.conf.xml (OPTIONS/timeout): Document new format.
  (EXAMPLE): Update to new interval format.
  (SEE ALSO): Reference RFC 3339.

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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">
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2011-11-26">
 
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2012-06-17">
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<!ENTITY % common SYSTEM "common.ent">
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%common;
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]>
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      <year>2009</year>
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      <year>2010</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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      <sbr/>
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      <arg><option>--statedir
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      <replaceable>DIRECTORY</replaceable></option></arg>
 
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      <sbr/>
 
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      <arg><option>--socket
 
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      <replaceable>FD</replaceable></option></arg>
 
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      <sbr/>
 
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      <arg><option>--foreground</option></arg>
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    </cmdsynopsis>
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    <cmdsynopsis>
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      <command>&COMMANDNAME;</command>
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        <term><option>--no-restore</option></term>
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        <listitem>
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          <xi:include href="mandos-options.xml" xpointer="restore"/>
 
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          <para>
 
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            See also <xref linkend="persistent_state"/>.
 
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          </para>
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        </listitem>
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      </varlistentry>
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          <xi:include href="mandos-options.xml" xpointer="statedir"/>
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        </listitem>
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        <term><option>--socket
 
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        <replaceable>FD</replaceable></option></term>
 
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          <xi:include href="mandos-options.xml" xpointer="socket"/>
 
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        <term><option>--foreground</option></term>
 
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          <xi:include href="mandos-options.xml"
 
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                      xpointer="foreground"/>
 
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    </variablelist>
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  </refsect1>
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      extended timeout, checker program, and interval between checks
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      can be configured both globally and per client; see
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      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>mandos-clients.conf</refentrytitle>
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      <manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.  A client successfully
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      receiving its password will also be treated as a successful
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      checker run.
 
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      <manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
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    </para>
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    <title>LOGGING</title>
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    <para>
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      The server will send log message with various severity levels to
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      <filename>/dev/log</filename>.  With the
 
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      <filename class="devicefile">/dev/log</filename>.  With the
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      <option>--debug</option> option, it will log even more messages,
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    <title>PERSISTENT STATE</title>
 
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      <filename>clients.conf</filename>.  However, if a setting is
 
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    <title>D-BUS INTERFACE</title>
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        <term><filename
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        class="directory">/var/lib/mandos</filename></term>
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    <para>
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      This server does not check the expire time of clients’ OpenPGP
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      keys.
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    </para>