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<title>PLUGINS</title>
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This program will get a password by running a number of
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<firstterm>plugins</firstterm>, which are executable programs in
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a directory in the initial <acronym>RAM</acronym> disk
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environment. The default directory is
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<firstterm>plugins</firstterm>, which are simply executable
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programs in a directory in the initial <acronym>RAM</acronym>
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disk environment. The default directory is
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<filename>/lib/mandos/plugins.d</filename>, but this can be
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changed with the <option>--plugin-dir</option> option. The
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plugins are started in parallel, and the first plugin to output
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a password <emphasis>and</emphasis> exit with a successful exit
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code will make this plugin-runner output the password from that
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plugin, stop any other plugins, and exit.
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a password and exit with a successful exit code will make this
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plugin-runner output that password, stop any other plugins, and
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<refsect2 id="writing_plugins">
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<title>WRITING PLUGINS</title>
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A plugin is an executable program which prints a password to
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its standard output and then exits with a successful (zero)
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exit status. If the exit status is not zero, any output on
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standard output will be ignored by the plugin runner. Any
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output on its standard error channel will simply be passed to
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the standard error of the plugin runner, usually the system
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If the password is a single-line, manually entered passprase,
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a final trailing newline character should
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<emphasis>not</emphasis> be printed.
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The plugin will run in the initial RAM disk environment, so
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care must be taken not to depend on any files or running
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services not available there. Any helper executables required
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by the plugin (which are not in the <envar>PATH</envar>) can
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be placed in the plugin helper directory, the name of which
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will be made available to the plugin via the
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<envar>MANDOSPLUGINHELPERDIR</envar> environment variable.
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The plugin must exit cleanly and free all allocated resources
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upon getting the TERM signal, since this is what the plugin
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runner uses to stop all other plugins when one plugin has
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output a password and exited cleanly.
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The plugin must not use resources, like for instance reading
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from the standard input, without knowing that no other plugin
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It is useful, but not required, for the plugin to take the
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<option>--debug</option> option.
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<refsect1 id="fallback">
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<title>FALLBACK</title>
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If no plugins succeed, this program will, as a fallback, ask for
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a password on the console using <citerefentry><refentrytitle
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>getpass</refentrytitle><manvolnum>3</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
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and output it. This is not meant to be the normal mode of
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operation, as there is a separate plugin for getting a password
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<refsect1 id="exit_status">
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<title>EXIT STATUS</title>
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Exit status of this program is zero if no errors were
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encountered, and otherwise not. The fallback (see <xref
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linkend="fallback"/>) may or may not have succeeded in either
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<title>ENVIRONMENT</title>
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This program does not use any environment variables itself, it
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only passes on its environment to all the plugins. The
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environment passed to plugins can be modified using the
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<option>--global-env</option> and <option>--env-for</option>
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options. Also, the <option>--plugin-helper-dir</option> option
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will affect the environment variable
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<envar>MANDOSPLUGINHELPERDIR</envar> for the plugins.
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<title>FILES</title>
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>/conf/conf.d/mandos/plugin-runner.conf</filename></term>
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Since this program will be run as a keyscript, there is
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little to no opportunity to pass command line arguments
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to it. Therefore, it will <emphasis>also</emphasis>
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read this file and use its contents as
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whitespace-separated command line options. Also,
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everything from a <quote>#</quote> character to the end
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of a line is ignored.
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This program is meant to run in the initial RAM disk
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environment, so that is where this file is assumed to
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exist. The file does not need to exist in the normal
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This file will be processed <emphasis>before</emphasis>
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the normal command line options, so the latter can
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override the former, if need be.
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This file name is the default; the file to read for
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arguments can be changed using the
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<option>--config-file</option> option.
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<term><filename class="directory"
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>/lib/mandos/plugins.d</filename></term>
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The default plugin directory; can be changed by the
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<option>--plugin-dir</option> option.
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<term><filename class="directory"
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>/lib/mandos/plugin-helpers</filename></term>
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The default plugin helper directory; can be changed by
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the <option>--plugin-helper-dir</option> option.
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<refsect1 id="notes">
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<title>BUGS</title>
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The <option>--config-file</option> option is ignored when
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specified from within a configuration file.
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<xi:include href="bugs.xml"/>
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<title>EXAMPLE</title>
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Normal invocation needs no options:
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<userinput>&COMMANDNAME;</userinput>
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Run the program, but not the plugins, in debug mode:
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<userinput>&COMMANDNAME; --debug</userinput>
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Run all plugins, but run the <quote>foo</quote> plugin in
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<userinput>&COMMANDNAME; --options-for=foo:--debug</userinput>
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Run all plugins, but not the program, in debug mode:
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<userinput>&COMMANDNAME; --global-options=--debug</userinput>
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Read a different configuration file, run plugins from a
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different directory, specify an alternate plugin helper
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directory and add four options to the
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<citerefentry><refentrytitle >mandos-client</refentrytitle>
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<manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum></citerefentry> plugin:
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<userinput>cd /etc/keys/mandos; &COMMANDNAME; --config-file=/etc/mandos/plugin-runner.conf --plugin-dir /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/mandos/plugins.d --plugin-helper-dir /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/mandos/plugin-helpers --options-for=mandos-client:--pubkey=pubkey.txt,​--seckey=seckey.txt,​--tls-pubkey=tls-pubkey.pem,​--tls-privkey=tls-privkey.pem</userinput>
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<title>SECURITY</title>
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This program will, when starting, try to switch to another user.
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If it is started as root, it will succeed, and will by default
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switch to user and group 65534, which are assumed to be
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non-privileged. This user and group is then what all plugins
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will be started as. Therefore, the only way to run a plugin as
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a privileged user is to have the set-user-ID or set-group-ID bit
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set on the plugin executable file (see <citerefentry>
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<refentrytitle>execve</refentrytitle><manvolnum>2</manvolnum>
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If this program is used as a keyscript in <citerefentry
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><refentrytitle>crypttab</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
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</citerefentry>, there is a slight risk that if this program
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fails to work, there might be no way to boot the system except
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for booting from another media and editing the initial RAM disk
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image to not run this program. This is, however, unlikely,
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since the <citerefentry><refentrytitle
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>password-prompt</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum>
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</citerefentry> plugin will read a password from the console in
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case of failure of the other plugins, and this plugin runner
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will also, in case of catastrophic failure, itself fall back to
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asking and outputting a password on the console (see <xref
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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>cryptsetup</refentrytitle>
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<manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
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<citerefentry><refentrytitle>crypttab</refentrytitle>
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<manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
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<citerefentry><refentrytitle>execve</refentrytitle>
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<manvolnum>2</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
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<citerefentry><refentrytitle>mandos</refentrytitle>
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<manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
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<citerefentry><refentrytitle>password-prompt</refentrytitle>
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<manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
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<citerefentry><refentrytitle>mandos-client</refentrytitle>
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<citerefentry><refentrytitle>password-request</refentrytitle>
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<manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum></citerefentry>
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