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  • Committer: teddy at recompile
  • Date: 2020-02-05 21:39:28 UTC
  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 396.
  • Revision ID: teddy@recompile.se-20200205213928-vpvt0fwfg47ikv6f
Allow users to alter ask-password-mandos.service

If a user uses dracut with systemd and wishes to modify the options
passed to password-agent(8mandos) or mandos-client(8mandos), they
should be able to do so by simply creating a file
/etc/systemd/system/ask-password-mandos.service.d/override.conf,
containing, for instance:

[Service]
Environment=MANDOS_CLIENT_OPTIONS=--debug

Adding PASSWORD_AGENT_OPTIONS should also be possible (but should not
normally be needed).

* dracut-module/ask-password-mandos.service ([Service]/ExecStart): Add
  $PASSWORD_AGENT_OPTIONS before "--" and "$MANDOS_CLIENT_OPTIONS" to
  end of line.
* dracut-module/module-setup.sh (install): Install all files named
  /etc/systemd/system/ask-password-mandos.service.d/*.conf if any
  exists.  Also add --dh-params before $MANDOS_CLIENT_OPTIONS instead
  of at end of line.

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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-keygen">
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2019-02-10">
 
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2019-07-18">
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<!ENTITY % common SYSTEM "common.ent">
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%common;
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]>
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            >8</manvolnum></citerefentry>.  The host name or the name
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            specified with the <option>--name</option> option is used
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            for the section header.  All other options are ignored,
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            and no key is created.
 
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            and no key is created.  Note: white space is stripped from
 
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            the beginning and from the end of the password; See <xref
 
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            linkend="bugs"/>.
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          </para>
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        </listitem>
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      </varlistentry>
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        <listitem>
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          <para>
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            The same as <option>--password</option>, but read from
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            <replaceable>FILE</replaceable>, not the terminal.
 
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            <replaceable>FILE</replaceable>, not the terminal, and
 
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            white space is not stripped from the password in any way.
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          </para>
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        </listitem>
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      </varlistentry>
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  <refsect1 id="bugs">
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    <title>BUGS</title>
 
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    <para>
 
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      The <option>--password</option>/<option>-p</option> option
 
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      strips white space from the start and from the end of the
 
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      password before using it.  If this is a problem, use the
 
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      <option>--passfile</option> option instead, which does not do
 
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      this.
 
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    </para>
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    <xi:include href="bugs.xml"/>
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  </refsect1>
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