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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2008-11-08 17:26:35 UTC
  • Revision ID: teddy@fukt.bsnet.se-20081108172635-6eexzbysvsk4bu1z
* mandos: Also import "with_statement" and "absolute_import" from
          "__future__.  Import "closing" from "contextlib".
  (Client.__init__): Use "with closing" on "secfile".
  (Client.checker_callback): Call "self.bump_timeout()" instead of
                             doing it directly.
  (Client.bump_timeout): New method to bump up the timeout.
  (TCP_handler.handle): Simplify code to provide fallback default for
                        GnuTLS priority string.
  (IPv6_TCPServer): Do not inherit from
                    "SocketServer.ForkingTCPServer", since that is
                    undocumented - instead, follow the example code
                    from the documentation.
  (if_nametoindex): Use "with closing" on the socket.

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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 "mandos">
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2008-09-04">
 
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2008-10-03">
 
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<!ENTITY % common SYSTEM "common.ent">
 
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%common;
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<refentry xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
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  <refentryinfo>
 
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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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    </copyright>
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    <xi:include href="legalnotice.xml"/>
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  <refmeta>
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    <refentrytitle>&COMMANDNAME;</refentrytitle>
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    <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
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      Gives encrypted passwords to authenticated Mandos clients
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    </refpurpose>
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    <cmdsynopsis>
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      <command>&COMMANDNAME;</command>
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      <arg choice="plain"><option>--check</option></arg>
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    <title>DESCRIPTION</title>
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          <xi:include href="mandos-options.xml" xpointer="debug"/>
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        <term><option>--priority <replaceable>
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        PRIORITY</replaceable></option></term>
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          <xi:include href="mandos-options.xml" xpointer="priority"/>
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        <term><option>--servicename
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        <replaceable>NAME</replaceable></option></term>
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                      xpointer="servicename"/>
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        <term><option>--configdir
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        <replaceable>DIRECTORY</replaceable></option></term>
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        <term><option>--version</option></term>
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    <title>OVERVIEW</title>
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      <acronym>RAM</acronym> disk environment.
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