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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2008-09-01 08:29:23 UTC
  • Revision ID: teddy@fukt.bsnet.se-20080901082923-i2liq6t7warmu9xe
* mandos.xml: Enclose "RAM" with <acronym>.
* overview.xml: - '' -

* plugin-runner.xml (DESCRIPTION): Improved wording.
  (PURPOSE): New section.
  (OPTIONS): Improved wording.
  (OVERVIEW, PLUGINS): New section.
  (FALLBACK): New empty placeholder section.

* plugins.d/password-prompt.xml: Enclose "RAM" with <acronym>.

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<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl"
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        href="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/manpages/docbook.xsl"?>
 
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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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 VERSION "1.0">
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<!ENTITY COMMANDNAME "plugin-runner">
 
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2008-09-01">
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]>
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<refentry>
 
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<refentry xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
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  <refentryinfo>
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    <title>&COMMANDNAME;</title>
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    <!-- NWalsh's docbook scripts use this to generate the footer: -->
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    <productname>&COMMANDNAME;</productname>
 
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    <title>Mandos Manual</title>
 
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    <!-- Nwalsh’s docbook scripts use this to generate the footer: -->
 
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    <productname>Mandos</productname>
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    <productnumber>&VERSION;</productnumber>
 
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    <date>&TIMESTAMP;</date>
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    <authorgroup>
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      <author>
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        <firstname>Björn</firstname>
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    </authorgroup>
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    <copyright>
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      <year>2008</year>
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      <holder>Teddy Hogeborn &amp; Björn Påhlsson</holder>
 
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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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    <legalnotice>
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      <para>
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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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        later version.
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      </para>
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      <para>
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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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        for more details.
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      </para>
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      <para>
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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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    <xi:include href="legalnotice.xml"/>
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  <refmeta>
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  <refnamediv>
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    <refname><command>&COMMANDNAME;</command></refname>
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    <refpurpose>
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      get password for encrypted rootdisk
 
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      Run Mandos plugins.  Pass data from first succesful one.
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  <refsynopsisdiv>
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      <command>&COMMANDNAME;</command>
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      <arg choice='opt'>--global-options<arg choice='plain'>OPTIONS</arg></arg>
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      <arg choice='opt'>--options-for<arg choice='plain'>PLUGIN:OPTIONS</arg></arg>
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      <arg choice='opt'>--disable<arg choice='plain'>PLUGIN</arg></arg>
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      <arg choice='opt'>--groupid<arg choice='plain'>ID</arg></arg>
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      <arg choice='opt'>--userid<arg choice='plain'>ID</arg></arg>
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      <arg choice='opt'>--plugin-dir<arg choice='plain'>DIRECTORY</arg></arg>
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      <command>&COMMANDNAME;</command>
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        <arg choice="plain"><option>--global-envs=<replaceable
 
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        >VAR</replaceable><literal>=</literal><replaceable
 
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        >value</replaceable></option></arg>
 
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      <sbr/>
 
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        >value</replaceable></option></arg>
 
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      <command>&COMMANDNAME;</command>
 
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    <title>DESCRIPTION</title>
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      passes it to cryptsetup as stdout message. This command is not
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      and subsequlently started in the initrd environment. See
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      <manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry> for the root disk.  The
 
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      <acronym>RAM</acronym> disk environment, and is responsible for
 
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      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>cryptsetup</refentrytitle>
 
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      <manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
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