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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2024-09-08 00:31:34 UTC
  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 410.
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Very minor security improvement when uninstalling package

* debian/mandos-client.postrm: Also shred(1) tls-privkkey.pem.

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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 "plugin-runner">
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2016-03-05">
 
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2023-04-30">
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<!ENTITY % common SYSTEM "common.ent">
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%common;
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]>
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      <year>2014</year>
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      <year>2015</year>
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      <year>2016</year>
 
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      <year>2017</year>
 
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      <year>2018</year>
 
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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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    <title>PLUGINS</title>
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    <para>
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      This program will get a password by running a number of
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      <firstterm>plugins</firstterm>, which are simply executable
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      programs in a directory in the initial <acronym>RAM</acronym>
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      disk environment.  The default directory is
 
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      <firstterm>plugins</firstterm>, which are executable programs in
 
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      a directory in the initial <acronym>RAM</acronym> disk
 
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      environment.  The default directory is
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      <filename>/lib/mandos/plugins.d</filename>, but this can be
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      changed with the <option>--plugin-dir</option> option.  The
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      plugins are started in parallel, and the first plugin to output
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    <refsect2 id="writing_plugins">
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      <title>WRITING PLUGINS</title>
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      <para>
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        A plugin is simply a program which prints a password to its
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        standard output and then exits with a successful (zero) exit
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        status.  If the exit status is not zero, any output on
 
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        A plugin is an executable program which prints a password to
 
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        its standard output and then exits with a successful (zero)
 
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        exit status.  If the exit status is not zero, any output on
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        standard output will be ignored by the plugin runner.  Any
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        output on its standard error channel will simply be passed to
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        the standard error of the plugin runner, usually the system
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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><filename class="directory"
 
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          >/lib/mandos/plugins.d</filename></term>
 
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            <para>
 
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              The default plugin directory; can be changed by the
 
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              <option>--plugin-dir</option> option.
 
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          <term><filename class="directory"
 
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          >/lib/mandos/plugin-helpers</filename></term>
 
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              The default plugin helper directory; can be changed by
 
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        </varlistentry>
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      </variablelist>
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    </para>
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  </refsect1>
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      <para>
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        Read a different configuration file, run plugins from a
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        different directory, specify an alternate plugin helper
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        directory and add four options to the
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        <citerefentry><refentrytitle >mandos-client</refentrytitle>
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        <manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum></citerefentry> plugin:
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      </para>
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      <para>
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<!-- do not wrap this line -->
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<userinput>cd /etc/keys/mandos; &COMMANDNAME;  --config-file=/etc/mandos/plugin-runner.conf --plugin-dir /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/mandos/plugins.d --plugin-helper-dir /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/mandos/plugin-helpers --options-for=mandos-client:--pubkey=pubkey.txt,--seckey=seckey.txt</userinput>
 
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<userinput>cd /etc/keys/mandos; &COMMANDNAME;  --config-file=/etc/mandos/plugin-runner.conf --plugin-dir /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/mandos/plugins.d --plugin-helper-dir /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/mandos/plugin-helpers --options-for=mandos-client:--pubkey=pubkey.txt,&#x200b;--seckey=seckey.txt,&#x200b;--tls-pubkey=tls-pubkey.pem,&#x200b;--tls-privkey=tls-privkey.pem</userinput>
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      </para>
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    </informalexample>