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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2019-07-18 00:02:43 UTC
  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 384.
  • Revision ID: teddy@recompile.se-20190718000243-okz4s9xao1r1tfnx
Document bug in mandos-keygen which strips white space from passwords

Passwords, as read by mandos-keygen when given the --password or -p
options, are stripped of white space from the start and from the end
of the password.  This is because mandos-keygen is a shell script, and
the Bourne Shell "read" builtin does not seem to have a way to avoid
this.  Document this bug.

* manods-keygen.xml (OPTIONS): Document the white space-stripping
                               nature of the --password/-p option, and
                               also note in the description of
                               --passfile and -F that they avoid this
                               behavior.
  (BUGS): Again mention the problem with the --password and -p
          options, and suggest --passfile as a possible workaround.

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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 "2019-07-24">
 
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2019-02-10">
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<!ENTITY % common SYSTEM "../common.ent">
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%common;
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  <refsect1 id="security">
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    <title>SECURITY</title>
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    <para>
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      This program assumes that it is set-uid to root, and will switch
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      back to the original (and presumably non-privileged) user and
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      group after bringing up the network interface.
 
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      This program is set-uid to root, but will switch back to the
 
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      original (and presumably non-privileged) user and group after
 
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      bringing up the network interface.
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    </para>
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    <para>
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      To use this program for its intended purpose (see <xref
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      </varlistentry>
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      <varlistentry>
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        <term>
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          <ulink url="https://www.avahi.org/">Avahi</ulink>
 
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          <ulink url="http://www.avahi.org/">Avahi</ulink>
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