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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2019-07-14 22:39:15 UTC
  • Revision ID: teddy@recompile.se-20190714223915-aqjkms3t3taa6tye
Only use sanitizing options when debugging

The C compiler's sanitizing options introduce code in the output
binary which is fragile and not very security conscious.  It has
become clear that sanitizing is only really meant for use while
debugging.

As a side effect, this makes compilation faster, as the Makefile, for
production builds, no longer runs the compiler repeatedly to find all
its currently supported sanitizing options.

* Makefile (DEBUG): Add "$(SANITIZE)".
  (SANITIZE): Comment out.
  (CFLAGS): Remove "$(SANITIZE)".
  (plugins.d/mandos-client): Revert back to use plain $(LINK.c), since
                             we no longer need to remove the leak
                             sanitizer by overriding CFLAGS.

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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 TIMESTAMP "2020-09-16">
 
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2019-04-10">
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<!ENTITY % common SYSTEM "common.ent">
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%common;
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]>
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      <year>2017</year>
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      <year>2018</year>
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      <year>2019</year>
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      <year>2020</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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      plugin requirements.
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    </para>
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  </refsect1>
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  <refsect1 id="systemd">
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    <title>SYSTEMD</title>
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    <para>
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      More advanced startup systems like <citerefentry><refentrytitle
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      >systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
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      already have their own plugin-like mechanisms for allowing
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      multiple agents to independently retrieve a password and deliver
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      it to the subsystem requesting a password to unlock the root
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      file system.  On these systems, it would make no sense to run
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      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>plugin-runner</refentrytitle
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      ><manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum></citerefentry>, the plugins of
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      which would largely duplicate the work of (and conflict with)
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      the existing systems prompting for passwords.
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    </para>
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    <para>
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      As for <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle
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      ><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry> in particular, it has
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      its own <ulink
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      url="https://systemd.io/PASSWORD_AGENTS/">Password
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      Agents</ulink> system.  Mandos uses this via its
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      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>password-agent</refentrytitle
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      ><manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum></citerefentry> program, which is
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      run instead of <citerefentry><refentrytitle
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      >plugin-runner</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum
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      ></citerefentry> when <citerefentry><refentrytitle
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      >systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
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      is used during system startup.
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    </para>
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  <refsect1 id="bugs">
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    <title>BUGS</title>
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    <xi:include href="bugs.xml"/>
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      <manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
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      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>plugin-runner</refentrytitle>
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      <manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
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      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>password-agent</refentrytitle>
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      <manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
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      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>mandos-client</refentrytitle>
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      <manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
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      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>password-prompt</refentrytitle>