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