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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2013-10-20 21:04:35 UTC
  • mto: (237.7.272 trunk)
  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 305.
  • Revision ID: teddy@recompile.se-20131020210435-jc94ovr5i4sve16r
* Makefile (install-client-nokey): Install "mandos-change-keytype".
  (uninstall-client): Uninstall "mandos-change-keytype".
* mandos (priority): Changed back default GnuTLS priority string to
                     "SECURE256:!CTYPE-X.509:+CTYPE-OPENPGP".
* mandos-change-keytype: New script which, assuming the Mandos server
                         is responding, will generate a new key with
                         the new mandos-keygen default parameters
                         (currently 4096-bit RSA), and output a
                         replacement section for clients.conf on the
                         Mandos server.
* mandos-keygen: Bug fix: output password prompt even when redirecting
                 stdout.
* mandos-options.xml (priority): Document new default value.
* mandos.conf (priority): - '' -

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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 "2012-01-01">
 
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2013-10-20">
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<!ENTITY % common SYSTEM "common.ent">
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%common;
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]>
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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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      <year>2013</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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      <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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      </varlistentry>
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          <xi:include href="mandos-options.xml" xpointer="statedir"/>
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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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    </variablelist>
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  </refsect1>
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      extended timeout, checker program, and interval between checks
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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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    <title>PERSISTENT STATE</title>
 
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    <title>D-BUS INTERFACE</title>
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          <para>
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            The file containing the process id of the
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      This server does not check the expire time of clients’ OpenPGP
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