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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2019-08-18 00:05:36 UTC
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Debian package: Only reload dbus daemon if necessary

* debian/mandos.postinst (configure): Only reload dbus daemon if the
                                      _mandos user was renamed or
                                      created.

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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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 VERSION "1.0">
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<!ENTITY COMMANDNAME "password-prompt">
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2008-08-29">
 
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2019-07-27">
 
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<!ENTITY % common SYSTEM "../common.ent">
 
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%common;
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<refentry>
 
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<refentry xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
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  <refentryinfo>
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    <title>Mandos Manual</title>
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    <!-- NWalsh’s docbook scripts use this to generate the footer: -->
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    <productname>Mandos</productname>
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    <productnumber>&VERSION;</productnumber>
 
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    <productnumber>&version;</productnumber>
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    <date>&TIMESTAMP;</date>
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    <authorgroup>
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      <author>
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        <firstname>Björn</firstname>
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        <surname>Påhlsson</surname>
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        <address>
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          <email>belorn@fukt.bsnet.se</email>
 
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          <email>belorn@recompile.se</email>
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        </address>
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      </author>
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      <author>
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        <firstname>Teddy</firstname>
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        <surname>Hogeborn</surname>
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        <address>
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          <email>teddy@fukt.bsnet.se</email>
 
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          <email>teddy@recompile.se</email>
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        </address>
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      </author>
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    <copyright>
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      <year>2019</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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    <legalnotice>
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      <para>
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        This manual page is free software: you can redistribute it
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        and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public
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        License as published by the Free Software Foundation,
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        either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any
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        later version.
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        This manual page is distributed in the hope that it will
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        be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the
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        implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
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        PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License
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        for more details.
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        You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
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        License along with this program; If not, see
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        <ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/"/>.
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  <refmeta>
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    <cmdsynopsis>
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      <command>&COMMANDNAME;</command>
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      <group choice="opt">
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        <arg choice="plain"><option>-p <replaceable
 
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        <arg choice="plain"><option>--prefix <replaceable
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        >PREFIX</replaceable></option></arg>
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        <arg choice="plain"><option>--prefix </option><replaceable
 
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        <arg choice="plain"><option>-p </option><replaceable
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        >PREFIX</replaceable></arg>
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        <option>--prompt <replaceable>PROMPT</replaceable></option>
 
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      <command>&COMMANDNAME;</command>
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    <title>DESCRIPTION</title>
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      All <command>&COMMANDNAME;</command> does is prompt for a
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      client-side system, where it is used as a fallback and
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      This program is little more than a <citerefentry><refentrytitle
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        <term><option>-p</option> <replaceable>PREFIX</replaceable
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