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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2012-06-23 00:58:49 UTC
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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-client">
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2015-06-29">
 
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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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      <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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      <year>2015</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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          <para>
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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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            <command>&COMMANDNAME;</command> not bring up
 
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            <emphasis>any</emphasis> interfaces specified
 
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            <emphasis>after</emphasis> this string.  This is not
 
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            recommended, and only meant for advanced users.
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      </varlistentry>
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  <refsect1 id="environment">
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    <title>ENVIRONMENT</title>
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    <variablelist>
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        <term><envar>MANDOSPLUGINHELPERDIR</envar></term>
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        <listitem>
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          <para>
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            This environment variable will be assumed to contain the
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            directory containing any helper executables.  The use and
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            nature of these helper executables, if any, is
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            purposefully not documented.
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    </variablelist>
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    <para>
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      This program does not use any other environment variables, not
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      even the ones provided by <citerefentry><refentrytitle
 
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      This program does not use any environment variables, not even
 
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      >cryptsetup</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
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    </citerefentry>.
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    </para>
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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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        </varlistentry>
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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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        specific interface:
 
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        Search for Mandos servers (and connect to them) using another
 
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      <para>
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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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      echo (<quote>ping</quote>) replies.
 
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      <emphasis>Note</emphasis>: This makes it completely insecure to
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                This client uses IPv6 link-local addresses, which are
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            </listitem>