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<!ENTITY COMMANDNAME "password-prompt">
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2019-07-27">
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2008-08-31">
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<refentry xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
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<title>Mandos Manual</title>
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<productname>Mandos</productname>
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<productnumber>&version;</productnumber>
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<productnumber>&VERSION;</productnumber>
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<date>&TIMESTAMP;</date>
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<firstname>Björn</firstname>
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<surname>Påhlsson</surname>
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<email>belorn@recompile.se</email>
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<email>belorn@fukt.bsnet.se</email>
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<firstname>Teddy</firstname>
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<surname>Hogeborn</surname>
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<email>teddy@recompile.se</email>
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<email>teddy@fukt.bsnet.se</email>
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<holder>Teddy Hogeborn</holder>
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<holder>Björn Påhlsson</holder>
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This manual page is free software: you can redistribute it
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and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public
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License as published by the Free Software Foundation,
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either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any
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This manual page is distributed in the hope that it will
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be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the
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implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
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PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License
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You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
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License along with this program; If not, see
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<ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/"/>.
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<title>DESCRIPTION</title>
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All <command>&COMMANDNAME;</command> does is prompt for a
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password and output any given password to standard output.
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This program is not very useful on its own. This program is
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really meant to run as a plugin in the <application
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>Mandos</application> client-side system, where it is used as a
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fallback and alternative to retrieving passwords from a
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<application >Mandos</application> server.
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password and output any given password to standard output. This
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is not very useful on its own. This program is really meant to
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run as a plugin in the <application>Mandos</application>
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client-side system, where it is used as a fallback and
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alternative to retriving passwords from a <application
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>Mandos</application> server.
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This program is little more than a <citerefentry><refentrytitle
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wrapper, although actual use of that function is not guaranteed
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This program tries to detect if a Plymouth daemon
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(<citerefentry><refentrytitle
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>plymouthd</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>)
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is running, by looking for a
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<filename>/run/plymouth/pid</filename> file or a process named
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<quote><literal>plymouthd</literal></quote>. If it is detected,
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this process will immediately exit without doing anything.
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<refsect1 id="options">
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<term><option>--prompt=<replaceable
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>PROMPT</replaceable></option></term>
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The password prompt. Using this option will make this
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program ignore the <envar>CRYPTTAB_SOURCE</envar> and
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<envar>CRYPTTAB_NAME</envar> environment variables.
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<term><option>--debug</option></term>
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<title>ENVIRONMENT</title>
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<term><envar>CRYPTTAB_SOURCE</envar></term>
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<term><envar>CRYPTTAB_NAME</envar></term>
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<term><envar>cryptsource</envar></term>
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<term><envar>crypttarget</envar></term>
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If set, and if the <option>--prompt</option> option is not
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used, these environment variables will be assumed to
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If set, these environment variables will be assumed to
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contain the source device name and the target device
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mapper name, respectively, and will be shown as part of
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These variables will normally be inherited from
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<citerefentry><refentrytitle>plugin-runner</refentrytitle>
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<manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum></citerefentry>, which might
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have in turn inherited them from its calling process.
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<manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum></citerefentry>, which will
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normally have inherited them from
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<filename>/scripts/local-top/cryptroot</filename> in the
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initial RAM disk environment, which will have set them from
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parsing kernel arguments and
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<filename>/conf/conf.d/cryptroot</filename> (also in the
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initial RAM disk environment), which in turn will have been
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created when the initial RAM disk image was created by
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>/usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/cryptroot</filename>, by
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extracting the information of the root file system from
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<filename >/etc/crypttab</filename>.
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This behavior is meant to exactly mirror the behavior of
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<command>askpass</command>, the default password prompter
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from initramfs-tools.
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<command>askpass</command>, the default password prompter.
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Show a prefix before the prompt; in this case, a host name.
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It might be useful to be reminded of which host needs a
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password, in case of <acronym>KVM</acronym> switches, etc.
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password, in case of KVM switches, etc.
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>plugin-runner</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum>
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</citerefentry>, and will, when run standalone, outside, in a
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normal environment, immediately output on its standard output
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any presumably secret password it just received. Therefore,
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any presumably secret password it just recieved. Therefore,
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when running this program standalone (which should never
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normally be done), take care not to type in any real secret
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password by force of habit, since it would then immediately be
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<refsect1 id="see_also">
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<title>SEE ALSO</title>
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<citerefentry><refentrytitle>intro</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>crypttab</refentrytitle>
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<manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
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<citerefentry><refentrytitle>password-request</refentrytitle>
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<manvolnum>8mandos</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>plymouthd</refentrytitle>
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<manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
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