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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2008-09-03 20:31:19 UTC
  • Revision ID: teddy@fukt.bsnet.se-20080903203119-0q6dii46hj3uf4ni
* plugins.d/password-request.xml (SYNOPSYS): Removed "--keydir".
  (OPTIONS): Removed "--keydir" and changed text of "--pubkey" and
             "--seckey".
  (EXAMPLE): Altered not to use "--keydir" anymore.

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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 "mandos-keygen">
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2019-02-10">
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<!ENTITY % common SYSTEM "common.ent">
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%common;
 
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2008-09-03">
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]>
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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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    <!-- 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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    <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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        <surname>Påhlsson</surname>
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        <address>
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          <email>belorn@recompile.se</email>
 
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          <email>belorn@fukt.bsnet.se</email>
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        </address>
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      </author>
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      <author>
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        <firstname>Teddy</firstname>
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        <surname>Hogeborn</surname>
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        <address>
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          <email>teddy@recompile.se</email>
 
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          <email>teddy@fukt.bsnet.se</email>
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        </address>
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    </authorgroup>
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    <copyright>
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      <year>2008</year>
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      <year>2009</year>
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      <year>2010</year>
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      <year>2011</year>
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      <year>2012</year>
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      <year>2013</year>
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      <year>2015</year>
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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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    <refentrytitle>&COMMANDNAME;</refentrytitle>
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    <manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
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      Generate key and password for Mandos client and server.
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      <command>&COMMANDNAME;</command>
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        <replaceable>TIME</replaceable></option></arg>
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        <arg choice="plain"><option>--tls-keytype
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        <replaceable>KEYTYPE</replaceable></option></arg>
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        <replaceable>KEYTYPE</replaceable></option></arg>
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        <arg choice="plain"><option>--password</option></arg>
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        <replaceable>FILE</replaceable></option></arg>
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        <replaceable>NAME</replaceable></option></arg>
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      <command>&COMMANDNAME;</command> is a program to generate the
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            Target directory for key files.  Default is <filename
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      <manvolnum>1</manvolnum></citerefentry>
 
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      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>password-request</refentrytitle>
 
483
      <manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum></citerefentry>
572
484
    </para>
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  </refsect1>
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