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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2013-10-24 20:21:45 UTC
  • mto: (237.7.272 trunk)
  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 305.
  • Revision ID: teddy@recompile.se-20131024202145-456a9y6x910a2vhb
* debian/control (Build-Depends): Changed debhelper version to (>= 9)
                                  to match debian/compat.
* mandos-options.xml (priority): Changed back to normal priority.
  (priority_compat): New option; for the server which needs to a
                     priority string compatible with old keys.
* mandos-conf.xml (OPTIONS/priority): Include "priority_compat".
* mandos.xml (OPTIONS/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-client">
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2016-07-10">
 
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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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    <copyright>
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      <year>2008</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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      <year>2014</year>
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      <year>2015</year>
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      <year>2016</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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      </arg>
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      <sbr/>
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      <arg>
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        <option>--dh-params <replaceable>FILE</replaceable></option>
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        <option>--delay <replaceable>SECONDS</replaceable></option>
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      <sbr/>
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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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            <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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            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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        <term><option>--dh-params=<replaceable
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            TLS Diffie-Hellman key exchange.  Default is 1024.
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  <refsect1 id="environment">
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    <title>ENVIRONMENT</title>
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        <term><envar>MANDOSPLUGINHELPERDIR</envar></term>
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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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      This program does not use any other environment variables, not
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