/mandos/release

To get this branch, use:
bzr branch http://bzr.recompile.se/loggerhead/mandos/release

« back to all changes in this revision

Viewing changes to mandos.xml

* plugins.d/password-prompt.c (conflict_detection): Check for both
                                                    "plymouth" and
                                                    "plymouthd".

Show diffs side-by-side

added added

removed removed

Lines of Context:
mandos.xml
2
2
<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3
3
"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
4
4
<!ENTITY COMMANDNAME "mandos">
5
 
<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2009-12-09">
 
5
<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2011-02-27">
6
6
<!ENTITY % common SYSTEM "common.ent">
7
7
%common;
8
8
]>
33
33
    <copyright>
34
34
      <year>2008</year>
35
35
      <year>2009</year>
 
36
      <year>2010</year>
 
37
      <year>2011</year>
36
38
      <holder>Teddy Hogeborn</holder>
37
39
      <holder>Björn Påhlsson</holder>
38
40
    </copyright>
86
88
      <sbr/>
87
89
      <arg><option>--debug</option></arg>
88
90
      <sbr/>
 
91
      <arg><option>--debuglevel
 
92
      <replaceable>LEVEL</replaceable></option></arg>
 
93
      <sbr/>
89
94
      <arg><option>--no-dbus</option></arg>
90
95
      <sbr/>
91
96
      <arg><option>--no-ipv6</option></arg>
194
199
      </varlistentry>
195
200
      
196
201
      <varlistentry>
 
202
        <term><option>--debuglevel
 
203
        <replaceable>LEVEL</replaceable></option></term>
 
204
        <listitem>
 
205
          <para>
 
206
            Set the debugging log level.
 
207
            <replaceable>LEVEL</replaceable> is a string, one of
 
208
            <quote><literal>CRITICAL</literal></quote>,
 
209
            <quote><literal>ERROR</literal></quote>,
 
210
            <quote><literal>WARNING</literal></quote>,
 
211
            <quote><literal>INFO</literal></quote>, or
 
212
            <quote><literal>DEBUG</literal></quote>, in order of
 
213
            increasing verbosity.  The default level is
 
214
            <quote><literal>WARNING</literal></quote>.
 
215
          </para>
 
216
        </listitem>
 
217
      </varlistentry>
 
218
      
 
219
      <varlistentry>
197
220
        <term><option>--priority <replaceable>
198
221
        PRIORITY</replaceable></option></term>
199
222
        <listitem>
338
361
    </para>
339
362
  </refsect1>
340
363
  
 
364
  <refsect1 id="approval">
 
365
    <title>APPROVAL</title>
 
366
    <para>
 
367
      The server can be configured to require manual approval for a
 
368
      client before it is sent its secret.  The delay to wait for such
 
369
      approval and the default action (approve or deny) can be
 
370
      configured both globally and per client; see <citerefentry>
 
371
      <refentrytitle>mandos-clients.conf</refentrytitle>
 
372
      <manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.  By default all clients
 
373
      will be approved immediately without delay.
 
374
    </para>
 
375
    <para>
 
376
      This can be used to deny a client its secret if not manually
 
377
      approved within a specified time.  It can also be used to make
 
378
      the server delay before giving a client its secret, allowing
 
379
      optional manual denying of this specific client.
 
380
    </para>
 
381
    
 
382
  </refsect1>
 
383
  
341
384
  <refsect1 id="logging">
342
385
    <title>LOGGING</title>
343
386
    <para>
353
396
    <para>
354
397
      The server will by default provide a D-Bus system bus interface.
355
398
      This interface will only be accessible by the root user or a
356
 
      Mandos-specific user, if such a user exists.
357
 
      <!-- XXX -->
 
399
      Mandos-specific user, if such a user exists.  For documentation
 
400
      of the D-Bus API, see the file <filename>DBUS-API</filename>.
358
401
    </para>
359
402
  </refsect1>
360
403
  
418
461
        <term><filename>/var/run/mandos.pid</filename></term>
419
462
        <listitem>
420
463
          <para>
421
 
            The file containing the process id of
422
 
            <command>&COMMANDNAME;</command>.
 
464
            The file containing the process id of the
 
465
            <command>&COMMANDNAME;</command> process started last.
423
466
          </para>
424
467
        </listitem>
425
468
      </varlistentry>
458
501
      has some security implications, see <xref linkend="clients"/>.
459
502
    </para>
460
503
    <para>
461
 
      There is currently no way of querying the server of the current
462
 
      status of clients, other than analyzing its <systemitem
463
 
      class="service">syslog</systemitem> output.
464
 
    </para>
465
 
    <para>
466
504
      There is no fine-grained control over logging and debug output.
467
505
    </para>
468
506
    <para>