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- Date: 2020-03-21 16:48:19 UTC
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<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
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<!ENTITY VERSION "1.0">
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<!ENTITY COMMANDNAME "mandos-keygen">
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<!ENTITY OVERVIEW SYSTEM "overview.xml">
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2019-07-18">
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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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<title>&COMMANDNAME;</title>
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<productname>&COMMANDNAME;</productname>
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<productnumber>&VERSION;</productnumber>
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<title>Mandos Manual</title>
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<productname>Mandos</productname>
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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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<firstname>Björn</firstname>
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<surname>Påhlsson</surname>
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<address>
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<email>belorn@fukt.bsnet.se</email>
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<email>belorn@recompile.se</email>
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</address>
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</author>
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<author>
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<firstname>Teddy</firstname>
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<surname>Hogeborn</surname>
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<address>
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<email>teddy@fukt.bsnet.se</email>
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<email>teddy@recompile.se</email>
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<copyright>
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<year>2008</year>
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<holder>Teddy Hogeborn & Björn Påhlsson</holder>
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<year>2009</year>
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<year>2010</year>
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<year>2011</year>
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<year>2012</year>
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<year>2013</year>
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<year>2018</year>
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<year>2019</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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<legalnotice>
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<para>
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This manual page is free software: you can redistribute it
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and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public
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License as published by the Free Software Foundation,
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either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any
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later version.
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</para>
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<para>
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This manual page is distributed in the hope that it will
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be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the
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implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
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PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License
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for more details.
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</para>
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<para>
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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
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License along with this program; If not, see
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<ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/"/>.
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</para>
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</legalnotice>
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<xi:include href="legalnotice.xml"/>
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<refmeta>
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<refentrytitle>&COMMANDNAME;</refentrytitle>
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<manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
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<refnamediv>
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<refname><command>&COMMANDNAME;</command></refname>
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<refpurpose>
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Generate keys for <citerefentry><refentrytitle>password-request
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</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum></citerefentry>
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Generate key and password for Mandos client and server.
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<command>&COMMANDNAME;</command>
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<group choice="opt">
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<arg choice="plain"><option>--dir</option>
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<replaceable>directory</replaceable></arg>
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<group choice="opt">
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<arg choice="plain"><option>--type</option>
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<replaceable>type</replaceable></arg>
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<group choice="opt">
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<arg choice="plain"><option>--length</option>
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<replaceable>bits</replaceable></arg>
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<group choice="opt">
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<arg choice="plain"><option>--name</option>
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<replaceable>NAME</replaceable></arg>
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<arg choice="plain"><option>--email</option>
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<replaceable>EMAIL</replaceable></arg>
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<arg choice="plain"><option>--comment</option>
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<replaceable>COMMENT</replaceable></arg>
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<arg choice="plain"><option>--expire</option>
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<replaceable>TIME</replaceable></arg>
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<arg choice="plain"><option>--dir
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<replaceable>DIRECTORY</replaceable></option></arg>
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<arg choice="plain"><option>--type
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<replaceable>KEYTYPE</replaceable></option></arg>
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<replaceable>KEYTYPE</replaceable></option></arg>
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<arg choice="plain"><option>--length
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<replaceable>BITS</replaceable></option></arg>
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<arg choice="plain"><option>--email
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<replaceable>TEXT</replaceable></option></arg>
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<replaceable>FILE</replaceable></option></arg>
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<command>&COMMANDNAME;</command> is a program to generate the
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OpenPGP keys used by
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<citerefentry><refentrytitle>password-request</refentrytitle>
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TLS and OpenPGP keys used by
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command line options.
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normally written to /etc/keys/mandos for later installation into
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the directory specified with the <option>--dir</option>
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option. Outputs, on standard output, a section suitable
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for inclusion in <citerefentry><refentrytitle
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>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>. The host name or the name
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specified with the <option>--name</option> option is used
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for the section header. All other options are ignored,
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and no key is created. Note: white space is stripped from
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the beginning and from the end of the password; See <xref
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The same as <option>--password</option>, but read from
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<option>--passfile</option> is given, this option will
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prevent <command>&COMMANDNAME;</command> from calling
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<command>ssh-keyscan</command> to get an SSH fingerprint
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for this host and, if successful, output suitable config
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options to use this fingerprint as a
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<option>checker</option> option in the output. This is
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otherwise the default behavior.
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&OVERVIEW;
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<xi:include href="overview.xml"/>
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<para>
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This program is a small program to generate new OpenPGP keys for
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new Mandos clients.
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This program is a small utility to generate new TLS and OpenPGP
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keys for new Mandos clients, and to generate sections for
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inclusion in <filename>clients.conf</filename> on the server.
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<title>EXIT STATUS</title>
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The exit status will be 0 if new keys were successfully created,
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otherwise not.
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<manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
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<citerefentry><refentrytitle>password-request</refentrytitle>
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<citerefentry><refentrytitle>intro</refentrytitle>
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<manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
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<manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>, and
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<citerefentry><refentrytitle>gpg</refentrytitle>
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