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Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
Date: 2008-09-21 13:42:34 UTC
Revision ID: teddy@fukt.bsnet.se-20080921134234-jo8p4rwtm50yb4xj

* clients.conf ([bar]/secfile): Do not imply armored format.

* debian/control: Build-Depend on pkg-config.

* debian/mandos.prerm (remove): Bug fix; check for
"/etc/init.d/mandos", not
"/etc/init.d/ssh".

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on your door and the sudden absence of all the servers in your

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server room. Which it does nicely.

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* The Plugin System

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In the early designs, the mandos-client(8mandos) program (which

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retrieves a password from the Mandos server) also prompted for a

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password on the terminal, in case a Mandos server could not be

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found. This duality of purpose was seen to be too complex to be a

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viable way to continue. Instead, the programs are now separated

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into mandos-client(8mandos) and password-prompt(8mandos), and a

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plugin-runner(8mandos) exist to run them both in parallel, allowing

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the first plugin to succeed to provide the password. This opened up

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for any number of additional plugins to run, all competing to be the

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first to find a password and provide it to the plugin runner.

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Three additional plugins are provided:

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* usplash

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This prompts for a password when using usplash(8).

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* splashy

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This prompts for a password when using splashy(8).

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* askpass-fifo

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To provide compatibility with the "askpass" program from

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cryptsetup, this plugin listens to the same FIFO as askpass would

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do.

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(None of these take any options or reads any files.)

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More plugins could easily be written and added by the system

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administrator; see the section called "WRITING PLUGINS" in

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plugin-runner(8mandos) to learn the plugin requirements.

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* Copyright

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