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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2013-10-30 21:05:47 UTC
  • mto: (237.7.272 trunk)
  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 307.
  • Revision ID: teddy@recompile.se-20131030210547-f1hoaesur3p3m04z
Don't require /var/lib/mandos to be installed with user & group.

* Makefile (install-server): Don't fail if changing user & group fails.

Reported-by: Nathanael D. Noblet <nathanael@gnat.ca>
Suggested-by: Nathanael D. Noblet <nathanael@gnat.ca>

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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 "plugin-runner">
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2016-03-17">
 
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2012-01-01">
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<!ENTITY % common SYSTEM "common.ent">
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%common;
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]>
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    <copyright>
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      <year>2008</year>
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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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      <year>2013</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><option>--plugin-dir=<replaceable
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      >DIRECTORY</replaceable></option></arg>
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      <sbr/>
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      <arg><option>--plugin-helper-dir=<replaceable
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      >DIRECTORY</replaceable></option></arg>
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      <sbr/>
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      <arg><option>--config-file=<replaceable
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      >FILE</replaceable></option></arg>
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      <sbr/>
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      </varlistentry>
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      <varlistentry>
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        <term><option>--plugin-helper-dir
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        <replaceable>DIRECTORY</replaceable></option></term>
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        <listitem>
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          <para>
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            Specify a different plugin helper directory.  The default
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            is <filename>/lib/mandos/plugin-helpers</filename>, which
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            will exist in the initial <acronym>RAM</acronym> disk
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            environment.  (This will simply be passed to all plugins
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            via the <envar>MANDOSPLUGINHELPERDIR</envar> environment
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            variable.  See <xref linkend="writing_plugins"/>)
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          </para>
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        <term><option>--config-file
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        <replaceable>FILE</replaceable></option></term>
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        <listitem>
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      <para>
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        The plugin will run in the initial RAM disk environment, so
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        care must be taken not to depend on any files or running
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        services not available there.  Any helper executables required
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        by the plugin (which are not in the <envar>PATH</envar>) can
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        be placed in the plugin helper directory, the name of which
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        will be made available to the plugin via the
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        <envar>MANDOSPLUGINHELPERDIR</envar> environment variable.
 
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        services not available there.
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      </para>
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      <para>
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        The plugin must exit cleanly and free all allocated resources
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      only passes on its environment to all the plugins.  The
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      environment passed to plugins can be modified using the
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      <option>--global-env</option> and <option>--env-for</option>
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      options.  Also, the <option>--plugin-helper-dir</option> option
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      <envar>MANDOSPLUGINHELPERDIR</envar> for the plugins.
 
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      options.
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    </para>
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  </refsect1>
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          </listitem>
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          <term><filename class="directory"
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          >/lib/mandos/plugins.d</filename></term>
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              The default plugin directory; can be changed by the
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              <option>--plugin-dir</option> option.
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          <term><filename class="directory"
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          >/lib/mandos/plugin-helpers</filename></term>
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              The default plugin helper directory; can be changed by
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              the <option>--plugin-helper-dir</option> option.
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      </variablelist>
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    </para>
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      The <option>--config-file</option> option is ignored when
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  <refsect1 id="examples">
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    </informalexample>
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        <citerefentry><refentrytitle >mandos-client</refentrytitle>
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        <manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum></citerefentry> plugin:
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<!-- do not wrap this line -->
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<userinput>cd /etc/keys/mandos; &COMMANDNAME;  --config-file=/etc/mandos/plugin-runner.conf --plugin-dir /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/mandos/plugins.d --plugin-helper-dir /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/mandos/plugin-helpers --options-for=mandos-client:--pubkey=pubkey.txt,--seckey=seckey.txt</userinput>
 
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<userinput>cd /etc/keys/mandos; &COMMANDNAME;  --config-file=/etc/mandos/plugin-runner.conf --plugin-dir /usr/lib/mandos/plugins.d --options-for=mandos-client:--pubkey=pubkey.txt,--seckey=seckey.txt</userinput>
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