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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2022-04-23 23:58:39 UTC
  • Revision ID: teddy@recompile.se-20220423235839-cnt9aq1kjveqaydc
Bug fix in mandos-ctl: handle backslashes in password

* mandos-ctl (mode=password): When sending the password to gpg, use
  "printf" instead of "echo -n".  This avoids the behavior of the
  "echo" builtin in "dash", which always interprets backslash escape
  codes.

Reported-By: Jesse Norell <jesse@kci.net>

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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 COMMANDNAME "mandos-client">
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2019-02-09">
 
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2019-07-24">
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<!ENTITY % common SYSTEM "../common.ent">
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%common;
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]>
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      <year>2016</year>
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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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      <holder>Teddy Hogeborn</holder>
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      <holder>Björn Påhlsson</holder>
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    </copyright>
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          <para>
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            This environment variable will be assumed to contain the
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            directory containing any helper executables.  The use and
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            nature of these helper executables, if any, is
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            purposefully not documented.
 
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            nature of these helper executables, if any, is purposely
 
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            not documented.
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        </listitem>
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      </varlistentry>
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  <refsect1 id="security">
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    <title>SECURITY</title>
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    <para>
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      This program is set-uid to root, but will switch back to the
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      original (and presumably non-privileged) user and group after
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      bringing up the network interface.
 
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      This program assumes that it is set-uid to root, and will switch
 
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      back to the original (and presumably non-privileged) user and
 
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      group after bringing up the network interface.
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    </para>
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    <para>
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      To use this program for its intended purpose (see <xref
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        <term>
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          <ulink url="http://www.avahi.org/">Avahi</ulink>
 
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          <ulink url="https://www.avahi.org/">Avahi</ulink>
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