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Debian 6.0 "squeeze" or Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" (or later).
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This is mostly for the support scripts which make sure that the
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client is installed and started in the initial RAM disk environment
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and that the initial RAM file system image file is automatically
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made unreadable. The server and client programs themselves *could*
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be run in other distributions, but they *are* specific to GNU/Linux
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systems, and are not written with portabillity to other Unixes in
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The following libraries and packages are needed. (It is possible
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that it might work with older versions of some of these, but these
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versions are confirmed to work. Newer versions are almost
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These are required to build the manual pages for both the server
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+ DocBook 4.5 http://www.docbook.org/
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Note: DocBook 5.0 is not compatible.
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+ DocBook XSL stylesheets 1.71.0
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http://wiki.docbook.org/DocBookXslStylesheets
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To build just the documentation, run the command "make doc". Then
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the manual page "mandos.8", for example, can be read by running
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+ GnuTLS 2.4 http://www.gnutls.org/
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Note: GnuTLS 3 will only work with Python-GnuTLS 2
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+ Avahi 0.6.16 http://www.avahi.org/
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+ Python 2.6 https://www.python.org/
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+ Python-GnuTLS 1.1.5 https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-gnutls/
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+ dbus-python 0.82.4 http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-python/
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+ PyGObject 2.14.2 https://developer.gnome.org/pygobject/
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+ pkg-config http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pkg-config/
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+ Python-argparse https://pypi.python.org/pypi/argparse
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+ Urwid 1.0.1 http://urwid.org/
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(Only needed by the "mandos-monitor" tool.)
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+ fping 2.4b2-to-ipv6 http://www.fping.org/
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+ ssh-keyscan from OpenSSH http://www.openssh.com/
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python-gnutls avahi-daemon python python-avahi python-dbus
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python-gobject python-urwid pkg-config fping ssh-client
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+ initramfs-tools 0.85i
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https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/initramfs-tools
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+ GnuTLS 2.4 http://www.gnutls.org/
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+ Avahi 0.6.16 http://www.avahi.org/
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+ GnuPG 1.4.9 https://www.gnupg.org/
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+ GPGME 1.1.6 https://www.gnupg.org/related_software/gpgme/
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+ pkg-config http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pkg-config/
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+ OpenSSH http://www.openssh.com/
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initramfs-tools libgnutls-dev libavahi-core-dev gnupg
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libgpgme11-dev pkg-config ssh
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* Installing the Mandos server
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2. On the computer to run as a Mandos server, run the following
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For Debian: su -c 'make install-server'
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For Ubuntu: sudo make install-server
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(This creates a configuration without any clients configured; you
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need an actually configured client to do that; see below.)
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* Installing the Mandos client.
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2. On the computer to run as a Mandos client, run the following
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For Debian: su -c 'make install-client'
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For Ubuntu: sudo make install-client
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This will also create an OpenPGP key, which will take some time
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and entropy, so be patient.
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3. Run the following command:
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For Debian: su -c 'mandos-keygen --password'
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For Ubuntu: sudo mandos-keygen --password
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When prompted, enter the password/passphrase for the encrypted
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root file system on this client computer. The command will
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output a section of text, starting with a [section header]. Copy
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and append this to the file "/etc/mandos/clients.conf" *on the
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4. Configure the client to use any special configuration needed for
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your local system. Note: This is not necessary if the server is
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present on the same wired local network as the client. If you do
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make changes to /etc/mandos/plugin-runner.conf, the initrd.img
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file must be updated, possibly using the following command:
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# update-initramfs -k all -u
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5. On the server computer, start the server by running the command
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For Debian: su -c 'invoke-rc.d mandos start'
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For Ubuntu: sudo service mandos start
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At this point, it is possible to verify that the correct password
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will be received by the client by running the command:
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# /usr/lib/mandos/plugins.d/mandos-client \
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--pubkey=/etc/keys/mandos/pubkey.txt \
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--seckey=/etc/keys/mandos/seckey.txt; echo
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This command should retrieve the password from the server,
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decrypt it, and output it to standard output.
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After this, the client computer should be able to reboot without
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needing a password entered on the console, as long as it does not
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take more than five minutes to reboot.
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* Further customizations
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You may want to tighten or loosen the timeouts in the server
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configuration files; see mandos.conf(5) and mandos-clients.conf(5).
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If IPsec is not used and SSH is not installed, it is suggested that
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a more cryptographically secure checker program is used and
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configured, since, without IPsec, ping packets can be faked.
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