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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2009-02-13 08:00:47 UTC
  • mfrom: (237.2.78 mandos)
  • Revision ID: teddy@fukt.bsnet.se-20090213080047-eibfmj4j2a9zt53d
Merge from trunk.  Notable changes:

 1. Server package now depends on "python-gobject".
 2. Permission fix for /lib64.
 3. Support for DEVICE setting from initramfs.conf, kernel parameters
    "ip=" and "mandos=connect".
 4. Fix for the bug where the server would stop responding, with a
    zombie checker process.
 5. Add support for disabling IPv6 in the server
 6. Fix for the bug which made the server, plugin-runner and
    mandos-client fail to change group ID.
 7. Add GnuTLS debugging to server debug output.
 8. Fix for the bug of the "--options-for" option of plugin-runner,
    where it would cut the value at the first colon character.
 9. Stop using sscanf() throughout, since it does not detect overflow.
10. Fix for the bug where plugin-runner would not go to the fallback
    if all plugins failed.
11. Fix for the bug where mandos-client would not clean up after a
    signal.
12. Added support for connecting to IPv4 addresses in mandos-client.
13. Added support for not using a specific network interface in
    mandos-client.
14. Kernel log level will be lowered by mandos-client while bringing
    up the network interface.
15. Add an option for the maximum time for mandos-client to wait for
    the network interface to come up.
16. Fix for the bug where mandos-client would not clean the temporary
    directory on some filesystems.

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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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<!ENTITY VERSION "1.0">
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<!ENTITY COMMANDNAME "mandos">
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2008-09-05">
 
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<refentry xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
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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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      <author>
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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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    <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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      <command>&COMMANDNAME;</command>
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      <replaceable>DIRECTORY</replaceable></option></arg>
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    <title>DESCRIPTION</title>
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        <term><option>--priority <replaceable>
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        PRIORITY</replaceable></option></term>
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