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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2008-08-17 06:01:58 UTC
  • Revision ID: teddy@fukt.bsnet.se-20080817060158-o5xakkih6t3br9yq
* Makefile (GNUTLS_CFLAGS, GNUTLS_LIBS, AVAHI_CFLAGS, AVAHI_LIBS,
            GPGME_CFLAGS, GPGME_LIBS): New; use libgnutls-config,
                                       pkg-config, and gpgme-config to
                                       get the correct compiler and
                                       linker flags.
  (MANPOST): New post-processing stage to man pages to fix a bug with
             having "\n" in the DocBook pages.
  (objects): Use $(addsuffix) instead of a for loop in a subshell.
  (plugin-runner, plugins.d/password-prompt): Removed; targets no
                                              longer necessary.
  (.PHONY): Added "doc".

* mandos.xml: Much improved.

* plugins.d/password-request.xml: Improved SEE ALSO section.

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<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
 
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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl"
 
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        href="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/manpages/docbook.xsl"?>
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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-keygen">
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]>
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<refentry xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
 
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<refentry>
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  <refentryinfo>
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    <title>&COMMANDNAME;</title>
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    <!-- NWalsh's docbook scripts use this to generate the footer: -->
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    </para>
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  </refsect1>
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  <refsect1 id="purpose">
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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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    <title>OVERVIEW</title>
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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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    <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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    <title>ENVIRONMENT</title>
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    <variablelist>
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        <term><varname>TMPDIR</varname></term>
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          <para>
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            If set, temporary files will be created here. See
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            <citerefentry><refentrytitle>mktemp</refentrytitle>
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            <manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
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    <title>FILES</title>
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      Use the <option>--dir</option> option to change where
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      <command>&COMMANDNAME;</command> will write the key files.  The
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      default file names are shown here.
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    <variablelist>
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        <term><filename>/etc/mandos/seckey.txt</filename></term>
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            OpenPGP secret key file which will be created or
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        <userinput>mandos-keygen</userinput>
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<!-- do not wrap this line -->
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