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Committer: teddy at recompile
Date: 2020-11-30 16:25:32 UTC
mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 402.
Revision ID: teddy@recompile.se-20201130162532-b73s2tsihw3so6pw

Update Debian Policy version to 4.5.1; no other changes necessary.

* debian/control (Standards-Version): Change to "4.5.1".

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<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"

"http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [

<!ENTITY COMMANDNAME "password-agent">

<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2019-11-13">

<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2020-09-16">

<!ENTITY % common SYSTEM "../common.ent">

%common;

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be a <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle>

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<manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry> <quote>Password

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Agent</quote> (See <ulink

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url="https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PasswordAgents/"

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>Password Agents</ulink>). The aim of this program is therefore

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to acquire and then send a password to some other program which

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url="https://systemd.io/PASSWORD_AGENTS/">Password

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Agents</ulink>). The aim of this program is therefore to

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acquire and then send a password to some other program which

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will use the password to unlock the encrypted root disk.

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</para>

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<para>

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Specify a different agent directory. The default is

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<quote><filename class="directory"

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>/run/systemd/ask-password</filename ></quote> as per the

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<ulink

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url="https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PasswordAgents/"

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>Password Agents</ulink> specification.

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<ulink url="https://systemd.io/PASSWORD_AGENTS/">Password

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Agents</ulink> specification.

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</para>

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</listitem>

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</varlistentry>

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responsible for getting a password from the Mandos client

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program itself, and to send that password to whatever is

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currently asking for a password using the systemd <ulink

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url="https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PasswordAgents/"

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>Password Agents</ulink> mechanism.

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url="https://systemd.io/PASSWORD_AGENTS/">Password

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Agents</ulink> mechanism.

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</para>

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<para>To accomplish this, &COMMANDNAME; runs the

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<command>mandos-client</command> program (which is the actual

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password is acquired from the

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<replaceable>MANDOS_CLIENT</replaceable> program, sends that

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password (as per the <ulink

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url="https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PasswordAgents/"

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>Password Agents</ulink> specification) to all currently

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unanswered password questions.

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url="https://systemd.io/PASSWORD_AGENTS/">Password Agents</ulink>

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specification) to all currently unanswered password questions.

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</para>

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This program should be started (normally as a systemd service,

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The default directory to watch for password questions as

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per the <ulink

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url="https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PasswordAgents/"

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>Password Agents</ulink> specification; can be changed

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by the <option>--agent-directory</option> option.

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url="https://systemd.io/PASSWORD_AGENTS/">Password

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Agents</ulink> specification; can be changed by the

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<option>--agent-directory</option> option.

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</para>

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</listitem>

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</varlistentry>

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<term>

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<ulink

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url="https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PasswordAgents/"

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>Password Agents</ulink>

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<ulink url="https://systemd.io/PASSWORD_AGENTS/">Password

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Agents</ulink>

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</term>

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