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  • Committer: teddy at recompile
  • Date: 2020-02-05 21:39:28 UTC
  • Revision ID: teddy@recompile.se-20200205213928-vpvt0fwfg47ikv6f
Allow users to alter ask-password-mandos.service

If a user uses dracut with systemd and wishes to modify the options
passed to password-agent(8mandos) or mandos-client(8mandos), they
should be able to do so by simply creating a file
/etc/systemd/system/ask-password-mandos.service.d/override.conf,
containing, for instance:

[Service]
Environment=MANDOS_CLIENT_OPTIONS=--debug

Adding PASSWORD_AGENT_OPTIONS should also be possible (but should not
normally be needed).

* dracut-module/ask-password-mandos.service ([Service]/ExecStart): Add
  $PASSWORD_AGENT_OPTIONS before "--" and "$MANDOS_CLIENT_OPTIONS" to
  end of line.
* dracut-module/module-setup.sh (install): Install all files named
  /etc/systemd/system/ask-password-mandos.service.d/*.conf if any
  exists.  Also add --dh-params before $MANDOS_CLIENT_OPTIONS instead
  of at end of line.

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<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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<!ENTITY % common SYSTEM "common.ent">
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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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      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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      url="https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PasswordAgents/"
 
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      >Password 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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      >plugin-runner</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum
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      ></citerefentry> when <citerefentry><refentrytitle
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      >systemd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>