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  • Committer: Björn Påhlsson
  • Date: 2009-09-21 21:57:23 UTC
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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 CONFNAME "mandos-clients.conf">
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<!ENTITY CONFPATH "<filename>/etc/mandos/clients.conf</filename>">
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2008-09-12">
 
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2009-09-17">
 
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<!ENTITY % common SYSTEM "common.ent">
 
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%common;
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]>
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<refentry xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
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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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    </authorgroup>
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    <copyright>
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      <year>2008</year>
 
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      <year>2009</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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            This option is <emphasis>optional</emphasis>.
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          </para>
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          <para>
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            The timeout is how long the server will wait for a
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            successful checker run until a client is considered
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            invalid - that is, ineligible to get the data this server
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            holds.  By default Mandos will use 1 hour.
 
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            The timeout is how long the server will wait (for either a
 
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            successful checker run or a client receiving its secret)
 
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            until a client is considered invalid - that is, ineligible
 
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            to get the data this server holds.  By default Mandos will
 
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            use 1 hour.
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          </para>
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          <para>
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            The <replaceable>TIME</replaceable> is specified as a
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            <varname>PATH</varname> will be searched.  The default
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            value for the checker command is <quote><literal
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            ><command>fping</command> <option>-q</option> <option
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            >--</option> %(host)s</literal></quote>.
 
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            >--</option> %%(host)s</literal></quote>.
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          </para>
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          <para>
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            In addition to normal start time expansion, this option
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            should <emphasis>not</emphasis> be base64-encoded, but
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            will be sent to clients verbatim.
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          </para>
 
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          <para>
 
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            File names of the form <filename>~user/foo/bar</filename>
 
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            and <filename>$<envar>ENVVAR</envar>/foo/bar</filename>
 
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            are supported.
 
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          </para>
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        </listitem>
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      </varlistentry>
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            This option is <emphasis>optional</emphasis>, but highly
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            <emphasis>recommended</emphasis> unless the
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            <option>checker</option> option is modified to a
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            non-standard value without <quote>%(host)s</quote> in it.
 
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            non-standard value without <quote>%%(host)s</quote> in it.
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          </para>
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          <para>
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            Host name for this client.  This is not used by the server
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[DEFAULT]
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timeout = 1h
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interval = 5m
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checker = fping -q -- %(host)s
 
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checker = fping -q -- %%(host)s
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# Client "foo"
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[foo]