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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2008-08-24 10:52:46 UTC
  • Revision ID: teddy@fukt.bsnet.se-20080824105246-4gu1o1q6sdjvqcyb
* mandos (fingerprint): Bug fix: Remove some temporary debugging code.

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<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
 
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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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<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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    <!-- NWalsh's docbook scripts use this to generate the footer: -->
 
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    <!-- NWalsh’s docbook scripts use this to generate the footer: -->
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    <productname>&COMMANDNAME;</productname>
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    <productnumber>&VERSION;</productnumber>
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    <authorgroup>
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    </authorgroup>
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    <copyright>
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      <year>2008</year>
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      <holder>Teddy Hogeborn &amp; Björn Påhlsson</holder>
 
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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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        <replaceable>bits</replaceable></arg>
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      </group>
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      <group choice="opt">
 
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        <arg choice="plain"><option>--subtype</option>
 
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        <replaceable>type</replaceable></arg>
 
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      </group>
 
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      <group choice="opt">
 
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        <arg choice="plain"><option>--sublength</option>
 
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        <replaceable>bits</replaceable></arg>
 
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      </group>
 
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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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      </group>
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        <replaceable>bits</replaceable></arg>
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      </group>
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      <group choice="opt">
 
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        <arg choice="plain"><option>-s</option>
 
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        <replaceable>type</replaceable></arg>
 
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      </group>
 
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      <group choice="opt">
 
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        <arg choice="plain"><option>-L</option>
 
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        <replaceable>bits</replaceable></arg>
 
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      </group>
 
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      <group choice="opt">
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        <arg choice="plain"><option>-n</option>
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        <replaceable>NAME</replaceable></arg>
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      </group>
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    <cmdsynopsis>
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      <command>&COMMANDNAME;</command>
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      <group choice="req">
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        <arg choice='plain'><option>-h</option></arg>
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        <arg choice='plain'><option>--help</option></arg>
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      </group>
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    </cmdsynopsis>
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    <cmdsynopsis>
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      <command>&COMMANDNAME;</command>
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      <group choice="req">
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        <arg choice='plain'><option>-v</option></arg>
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        <arg choice='plain'><option>--version</option></arg>
 
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        <arg choice="plain"><option>-p</option></arg>
 
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        <arg choice="plain"><option>--password</option></arg>
 
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      </group>
 
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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>--name</option>
 
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        <replaceable>NAME</replaceable></arg>
 
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      <command>&COMMANDNAME;</command>
 
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        <arg choice="plain"><option>-h</option></arg>
 
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        <arg choice="plain"><option>--help</option></arg>
 
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    <cmdsynopsis>
 
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      <command>&COMMANDNAME;</command>
 
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        <arg choice="plain"><option>-v</option></arg>
 
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        <arg choice="plain"><option>--version</option></arg>
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      </group>
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    </cmdsynopsis>
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  </refsynopsisdiv>
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      initrd image, but this, like most things, can be changed with
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      command line options.
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    </para>
 
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    <para>
 
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      It can also be used to generate ready-made sections for
 
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      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>mandos-clients.conf</refentrytitle>
 
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      <manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry> using the
 
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      <option>--password</option> option.
 
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        <replaceable>directory</replaceable></literal></term>
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          <para>
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            Target directory for key files.
 
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        </listitem>
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        <replaceable>type</replaceable></literal></term>
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        <replaceable>address</replaceable></term>
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            Comment field for key.  The default value is
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            "<literal>Mandos client key</literal>".
 
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            <quote><literal>Mandos client key</literal></quote>.
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            present in either <filename>/etc/mandos</filename> or the
 
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            option.  Outputs, on standard output, a section suitable
 
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      This program is a small program to generate new OpenPGP keys for
 
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      in doubt, leave them to the default values.
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    </para>