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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2015-04-02 21:56:15 UTC
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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 "2012-06-13">
 
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2015-03-08">
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<!ENTITY % common SYSTEM "../common.ent">
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%common;
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]>
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      <year>2008</year>
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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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            assumed to separate the address from the port number.
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          </para>
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          <para>
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            This option is normally only useful for testing and
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            debugging.
 
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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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          </para>
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        </listitem>
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      </varlistentry>
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      <varlistentry>
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        <term><option>--interface=<replaceable
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        >NAME</replaceable></option></term>
 
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        >NAME</replaceable><arg rep='repeat'>,<replaceable
 
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        >NAME</replaceable></arg></option></term>
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        <term><option>-i
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        <replaceable>NAME</replaceable></option></term>
 
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        <replaceable>NAME</replaceable><arg rep='repeat'>,<replaceable
 
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        >NAME</replaceable></arg></option></term>
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        <listitem>
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          <para>
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            Comma separated list of network interfaces that will be
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            use all appropriate interfaces.
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          </para>
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          <para>
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            If the <option>--connect</option> option is used, this
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            specifies the interface to use to connect to the address
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            given.
 
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            If the <option>--connect</option> option is used, and
 
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            exactly one interface name is specified (except
 
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            <quote><literal>none</literal></quote>), this specifies
 
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            the interface to use to connect to the address given.
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          </para>
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          <para>
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            Note that since this program will normally run in the
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            <replaceable>NAME</replaceable> can be the string
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            <quote><literal>none</literal></quote>; this will not use
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            any specific interface, and will not bring up an interface
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            on startup.  This is not recommended, and only meant for
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            advanced users.
 
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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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          </para>
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      </varlistentry>
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        <listitem>
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          <para>
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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.  Default is 1024.
 
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            TLS Diffie-Hellman key exchange.  The default value is
 
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            selected automatically based on the OpenPGP key.
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          </para>
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        </listitem>
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      </varlistentry>
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              It is not necessary to print any non-executable files
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              already in the network hook directory, these will be
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              copied implicitly if they otherwise satisfy the name
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              requirement.
 
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              requirements.
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            </para>
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        </varlistentry>
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    </para>
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    <informalexample>
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        Normal invocation needs no options, if the network interface
 
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        Normal invocation needs no options, if the network interfaces
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        can be automatically determined:
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      <para>
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    </informalexample>
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    <informalexample>
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        Search for Mandos servers (and connect to them) using another
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        interface:
 
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        Search for Mandos servers (and connect to them) using one
 
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        specific interface:
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      </para>
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      <para>
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        <!-- do not wrap this line -->
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    <para>
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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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      echo (<quote>ping</quote>) replies.
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      <emphasis>Note</emphasis>: This makes it completely insecure to
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              <para>
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                This client uses IPv6 link-local addresses, which are
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                immediately usable since a link-local addresses is
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                automatically assigned to a network interfaces when it
 
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                automatically assigned to a network interface when it
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                is brought up.
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              </para>
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            </listitem>