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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2009-01-15 04:55:10 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 COMMANDNAME "mandos">
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2008-09-01">
 
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2009-01-04">
 
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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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    </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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    <xi:include href="legalnotice.xml"/>
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  </refentryinfo>
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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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  </refnamediv>
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  <refsynopsisdiv>
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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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    </cmdsynopsis>
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  <refsect1 id="description">
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    <title>DESCRIPTION</title>
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    <para>
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      Any authenticated client is then given the stored pre-encrypted
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      password for that specific client.
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    <title>PURPOSE</title>
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    <para>
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      The purpose of this is to enable <emphasis>remote and unattended
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      rebooting</emphasis> of client host computer with an
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      <emphasis>encrypted root file system</emphasis>.  See <xref
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      linkend="overview"/> for details.
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  <refsect1 id="options">
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    <title>OPTIONS</title>
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    <variablelist>
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        <term><option>--help</option></term>
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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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        <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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          </para>
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        <term><option>--version</option></term>
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    </variablelist>
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    <title>OVERVIEW</title>
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      <acronym>RAM</acronym> disk environment.
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    <title>NETWORK PROTOCOL</title>
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    <title>CHECKING</title>
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      <manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
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    <title>LOGGING</title>
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    <title>EXIT STATUS</title>
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      critical error is encountered.
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        <term><filename>/var/run/mandos/mandos.pid</filename></term>
 
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            The file containing the process id of
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      having timed out, the server does not record this fact onto
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      permanent storage.  This has some security implications, see
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