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<!ENTITY COMMANDNAME "mandos-keygen">
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<!ENTITY OVERVIEW SYSTEM "overview.xml">
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<refsect1 id="purpose">
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<title>PURPOSE</title>
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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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<refsect1 id="overview">
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<title>OVERVIEW</title>
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This program is a small program to generate new OpenPGP keys for
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<refsect1 id="exit_status">
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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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<refsect1 id="environment">
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<title>ENVIRONMENT</title>
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<term><varname>TMPDIR</varname></term>
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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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<refsect1 id="file">
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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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<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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<term><filename>/etc/mandos/pubkey.txt</filename></term>
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OpenPGP public key file which will be created or
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<term><filename>/tmp</filename></term>
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Temporary files will be written here if
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<varname>TMPDIR</varname> is not set.
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<refsect1 id="notes">
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<refsect1 id="bugs">
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<title>BUGS</title>
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None are known at this time.
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<refsect1 id="examples">
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<title>EXAMPLES</title>
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<title>EXAMPLE</title>
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Normal invocation needs no options:
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<userinput>mandos-keygen</userinput>
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Create keys in another directory and of another type. Force
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overwriting old key files:
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<userinput>mandos-keygen --dir ~/keydir --type RSA --force</userinput>
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<title>SECURITY</title>
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The <option>--type</option> and <option>--length</option>
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options can be used to create keys of insufficient security. If
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in doubt, leave them to the default values.
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The key expire time is not guaranteed to be honored by
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<citerefentry><refentrytitle>mandos</refentrytitle>
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<manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>.