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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2024-11-17 18:43:11 UTC
  • Revision ID: teddy@recompile.se-20241117184311-ox25kvngy62h209g
Debian package: Avoid suggesting a C compiler unnecessarily

The list of suggested packages, meant to enable the "mandos" program
to find the correct value of SO_BINDTODEVICE by using a C compiler,
are not necessary when Python 3.3 or later is used, since it has the
SO_BINDTODEVICE constant defined in the "socket" module.  Also, Python
2.6 or older has the same constant in the old "IN" module.  Therefore,
we should suggest these Python versions as alternatives to a C
compiler, so that a C compiler is not installed unnecessarily.

debian/control (Package: mandos/Suggests): Add "python3 (>= 3.3)" and
"python (<= 2.6)" as alternatives to "libc6-dev | libc-dev" and
"c-compiler".

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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 "password-agent">
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2019-11-13">
 
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2020-09-16">
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<!ENTITY % common SYSTEM "../common.ent">
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%common;
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]>
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    </authorgroup>
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    <copyright>
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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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      be a <citerefentry><refentrytitle>systemd</refentrytitle>
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      <manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry> <quote>Password
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      Agent</quote> (See <ulink
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      url="https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PasswordAgents/"
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      >Password Agents</ulink>).  The aim of this program is therefore
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      to acquire and then send a password to some other program which
 
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      url="https://systemd.io/PASSWORD_AGENTS/">Password
 
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      Agents</ulink>).  The aim of this program is therefore to
 
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      acquire and then send a password to some other program which
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      will use the password to unlock the encrypted root disk.
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    </para>
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    <para>
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            Specify a different agent directory.  The default is
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            <quote><filename class="directory"
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            >/run/systemd/ask-password</filename ></quote> as per the
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            <ulink
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            url="https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PasswordAgents/"
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            >Password Agents</ulink> specification.
 
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            <ulink url="https://systemd.io/PASSWORD_AGENTS/">Password
 
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            Agents</ulink> specification.
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          </para>
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        </listitem>
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      </varlistentry>
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      responsible for getting a password from the Mandos client
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      program itself, and to send that password to whatever is
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      currently asking for a password using the systemd <ulink
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      url="https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PasswordAgents/"
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      >Password Agents</ulink> mechanism.
 
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      url="https://systemd.io/PASSWORD_AGENTS/">Password
 
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      Agents</ulink> mechanism.
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    </para>
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    <para>To accomplish this, &COMMANDNAME; runs the
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    <command>mandos-client</command> program (which is the actual
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    password is acquired from the
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    <replaceable>MANDOS_CLIENT</replaceable> program, sends that
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    password (as per the <ulink
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    url="https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PasswordAgents/"
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    >Password Agents</ulink> specification) to all currently
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    unanswered password questions.
 
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    url="https://systemd.io/PASSWORD_AGENTS/">Password Agents</ulink>
 
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    specification) to all currently unanswered password questions.
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    </para>
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    <para>
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      This program should be started (normally as a systemd service,
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            <para>
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              The default directory to watch for password questions as
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              per the <ulink
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              url="https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PasswordAgents/"
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              >Password Agents</ulink> specification; can be changed
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              by the <option>--agent-directory</option> option.
 
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              url="https://systemd.io/PASSWORD_AGENTS/">Password
 
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              Agents</ulink> specification; can be changed by the
 
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              <option>--agent-directory</option> option.
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            </para>
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          </listitem>
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        </varlistentry>
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    <variablelist>
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      <varlistentry>
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        <term>
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          <ulink
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              url="https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PasswordAgents/"
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              >Password Agents</ulink>
 
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          <ulink url="https://systemd.io/PASSWORD_AGENTS/">Password
 
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          Agents</ulink>
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        </term>
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        <listitem>
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          <para>