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  • Committer: Björn Påhlsson
  • Date: 2008-08-11 16:35:32 UTC
  • mto: (237.7.1 mandos) (24.1.154 mandos)
  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 66.
  • Revision ID: belorn@braxen-20080811163532-er1zd4q2j4ykfv11
Fixed fallback on error in mandos-client
fixed a bug in password-request

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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<!DOCTYPE chapter 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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<para>
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  This is part of the Mandos system for allowing computers to have
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  encrypted root file systems and also be capable of remote and
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  unattended reboots.  The computers run a small client program in the
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  initial RAM disk environment which will communicate with a server
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  over a network.  The clients are identified by the server using a
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  OpenPGP key; each client has one unique to it.  The server sends the
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  clients an encrypted password.  The encrypted password is decrypted
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  by the clients using the same OpenPGP key, and the password is then
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  used to unlock the root file system, whereupon the computers can
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  continue booting normally.
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</para>