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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2019-07-18 00:02:43 UTC
  • Revision ID: teddy@recompile.se-20190718000243-okz4s9xao1r1tfnx
Document bug in mandos-keygen which strips white space from passwords

Passwords, as read by mandos-keygen when given the --password or -p
options, are stripped of white space from the start and from the end
of the password.  This is because mandos-keygen is a shell script, and
the Bourne Shell "read" builtin does not seem to have a way to avoid
this.  Document this bug.

* manods-keygen.xml (OPTIONS): Document the white space-stripping
                               nature of the --password/-p option, and
                               also note in the description of
                               --passfile and -F that they avoid this
                               behavior.
  (BUGS): Again mention the problem with the --password and -p
          options, and suggest --passfile as a possible workaround.

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INSTALL
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    "man -l mandos.8".
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*** Mandos Server
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    + GnuTLS 3.3          http://www.gnutls.org/
 
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    + GnuTLS 3.3          https://www.gnutls.org/
 
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      (but not 3.6.0 or later, until 3.6.6, which works)
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    + Avahi 0.6.16        http://www.avahi.org/
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    + Python 2.7          https://www.python.org/
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    + dbus-python 0.82.4  http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-python/
 
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    + dbus-python 0.82.4 https://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-python/
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    + PyGObject 3.7.1     https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/PyGObject
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    + pkg-config  http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pkg-config/
 
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    + pkg-config https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pkg-config/
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    + Urwid 1.0.1         http://urwid.org/
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      (Only needed by the "mandos-monitor" tool.)
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    fping ssh-client
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*** Mandos Client
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    + GNU C Library 2.16 https://gnu.org/software/libc/
 
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    + GNU C Library 2.17 https://gnu.org/software/libc/
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    + initramfs-tools 0.85i
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                        https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/initramfs-tools
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    + GnuTLS 3.3        http://www.gnutls.org/
 
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    + GnuTLS 3.3        https://www.gnutls.org/
 
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      (but not 3.6.0 or later, until 3.6.6 which works)
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    + Avahi 0.6.16      http://www.avahi.org/
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    + GnuPG 1.4.9       https://www.gnupg.org/
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    + GPGME 1.1.6       https://www.gnupg.org/related_software/gpgme/
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    + pkg-config  http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pkg-config/
 
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    + pkg-config https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pkg-config/
 
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    + libnl-route 3     https://www.infradead.org/~tgr/libnl/
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    Strongly recommended:
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    + OpenSSH           http://www.openssh.com/
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    Package names:
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    initramfs-tools libgnutls-dev libavahi-core-dev gnupg
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    libgpgme11-dev pkg-config ssh
 
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    initramfs-tools libgnutls-dev gnutls-bin libavahi-core-dev gnupg
 
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    libgpgme11-dev pkg-config ssh libnl-route-3-dev
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* Installing the Mandos server
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        # /usr/lib/mandos/plugins.d/mandos-client \
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                --pubkey=/etc/keys/mandos/pubkey.txt \
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                --seckey=/etc/keys/mandos/seckey.txt \
 
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                --tls-privkey=/etc/keys/mandos/tls-privkey.pem \
 
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     This command should retrieve the password from the server,
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     decrypt it, and output it to standard output.