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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2008-08-20 03:22:45 UTC
  • Revision ID: teddy@fukt.bsnet.se-20080820032245-ue341vdvzqdsg68l
* mandos (string_to_delta): Accept a whitespace-separated sequence of
                            intervals and return the sum.  This allows
                            "5m 30s" to be valid.
  (main): Provide an empty default value for the "host" option for
          "clients.conf", making it no longer a required option.

* mandos-clients.conf.xml: Removed <?xml-stylesheet>.
  (DESCRIPTION): Improved text.
  (DEFAULTS): Renamed to "OPTIONS".  Improved text for "timeout" and
              "interval".
  (CLIENTS): Removed; content moved to "OPTIONS".
  (EXPANSION): New section; document %(foo)s and %%(foo)s expansion.
  (FILES): Moved to before "EXAMPLES".
  (BUGS): New section.
  (EXAMPLES): Renamed to "EXAMPLE", as per man-pages(7).  Renamed
              example section "example_client" to "foo".  Changed
              example "host" setting to a more reasonable example host
              name.  Added additional example client "bar".

* mandos-conf.xml: Removed OVERVIEW entity.

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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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"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">
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2009-02-24">
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<!ENTITY % common SYSTEM "common.ent">
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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>Mandos Manual</title>
 
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  <refentryinfo>
 
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    <title>&COMMANDNAME;</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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    <productname>&COMMANDNAME;</productname>
 
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    <productnumber>&VERSION;</productnumber>
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      <author>
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        <firstname>Björn</firstname>
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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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        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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        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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        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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    <refname><command>&COMMANDNAME;</command></refname>
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      Gives encrypted passwords to authenticated Mandos clients
 
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        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>mandos-clients.conf</refentrytitle>
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        <manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>)
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        <emphasis>must</emphasis> be made non-readable by anyone
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        except the user starting the server (usually root).
 
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        As detailed in <xref linkend="checking"/>, the status of all
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        restarting servers if it is suspected that a client has, in
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        fact, been compromised by parties who may now be running a
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        fake Mandos client with the keys from the non-encrypted
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        initial <acronym>RAM</acronym> image of the client host.  What
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        should be done in that case (if restarting the server program
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        really is necessary) is to stop the server program, edit the
 
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        configuration file to omit any suspect clients, and restart
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        the server program.
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        <citerefentry><refentrytitle>mandos-client</refentrytitle>
 
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    <para>
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      <citerefentry>
 
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        <refentrytitle>mandos.conf</refentrytitle>
 
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        <manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>, <citerefentry>
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        <refentrytitle>mandos-clients.conf</refentrytitle>
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        <manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>, <citerefentry>
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        <refentrytitle>mandos.conf</refentrytitle>
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        <manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>, <citerefentry>
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        <refentrytitle>mandos-client</refentrytitle>
 
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        <manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum></citerefentry>, <citerefentry>
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        <refentrytitle>sh</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum>
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      <varlistentry>
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        <term>
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          <ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/"
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          >GnuTLS</ulink>
 
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          <ulink
 
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      <varlistentry>
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        <term>
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          Architecture</citetitle>
 
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          <citation>RFC 4291: <citetitle>IP Version 6 Addressing
 
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          Architecture</citetitle>, section 2.5.6, Link-Local IPv6
 
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          Unicast Addresses</citation>
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              Addresses</citetitle></term>
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              <listitem><para/></listitem>
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            <varlistentry>
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              <term>Section 2.5.5.2: <citetitle>IPv4-Mapped IPv6
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              Address</citetitle></term>
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              <listitem><para/></listitem>
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            <varlistentry>
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            <term>Section 2.5.6, <citetitle>Link-Local IPv6 Unicast
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            Addresses</citetitle></term>
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            <listitem>
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              <para>
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                The clients use IPv6 link-local addresses, which are
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                immediately usable since a link-local addresses is
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                automatically assigned to a network interfaces when it
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                is brought up.
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              </para>
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            </listitem>
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            </varlistentry>
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          </variablelist>
 
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            The clients use IPv6 link-local addresses, which are
 
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            immediately usable since a link-local addresses is
 
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            automatically assigned to a network interfaces when it is
 
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            brought up.
 
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        <term>
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          RFC 4346: <citetitle>The Transport Layer Security (TLS)
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          Protocol Version 1.1</citetitle>
 
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          <citation>RFC 4346: <citetitle>The Transport Layer Security
 
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          (TLS) Protocol Version 1.1</citetitle></citation>
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        </term>
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        <para>
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        <term>
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          RFC 4880: <citetitle>OpenPGP Message Format</citetitle>
 
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          <citation>RFC 4880: <citetitle>OpenPGP Message
 
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          Format</citetitle></citation>
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        </term>
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      <varlistentry>
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        <term>
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          RFC 5081: <citetitle>Using OpenPGP Keys for Transport Layer
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          Security</citetitle>
 
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          <citation>RFC 5081: <citetitle>Using OpenPGP Keys for
 
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          Transport Layer Security</citetitle></citation>
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        </term>
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