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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2014-06-22 02:19:30 UTC
  • mto: (237.7.272 trunk)
  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 317.
  • Revision ID: teddy@recompile.se-20140622021930-icl7h4cm97blhjml
mandos-keygen: Generate "checker" option to use SSH fingerprints.

To turn this off, use a new "--no-ssh" option to mandos-keygen.

* INSTALL (Mandos Server, Mandos Client): Document new suggested
                                          installation of SSH.
* Makefile (confdir/clients.conf): Use new "--no-ssh" option to
                                   "mandos-keygen".
* debian/control (mandos/Depends): Changed to "fping | ssh-client".
  (mandos-client/Recommends): New; set to "ssh".
* intro.xml (FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS): Rename and rewrite section
                                          called "Faking ping
                                          replies?" to address new
                                          default behavior.
* mandos-clients.conf.xml (OPTIONS/checker): Briefly discuss new
                                             behavior of
                                             mandos-keygen.
* mandos-keygen: Bug fix: Suppress failure output of "shred" to remove
                 "sec*", since no such files may exist.
 (password mode): Scan for SSH key fingerprints and output as new
                  "checker" and "ssh_fingerprint" options, unless new
                  "--no-ssh" option is given.
* mandos-keygen.xml (SYNOPSIS/--force): Bug fix: Document short form.
  (OPTIONS/--no-ssh): New.
  (SEE ALSO): Add reference "ssh-keyscan(1)".
* plugins.d/mandos-client.xml (SECURITY): Briefly mention the
                                          possibility of using SSH key
                                          fingerprints for checking.

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<!ENTITY COMMANDNAME "mandos-client">
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2014-01-20">
 
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<!ENTITY % common SYSTEM "../common.ent">
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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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      <holder>Teddy Hogeborn</holder>
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      <holder>Björn Påhlsson</holder>
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    </copyright>
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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> 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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            <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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      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, unlike unencrypted
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      <acronym>ICMP</acronym> echo (<quote>ping</quote>) replies.
 
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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