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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2012-01-15 21:07:44 UTC
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        "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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<!ENTITY CONFNAME "mandos-clients.conf">
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<!ENTITY CONFPATH "<filename>/etc/mandos/clients.conf</filename>">
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2010-09-26">
 
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2012-01-01">
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<!ENTITY % common SYSTEM "common.ent">
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%common;
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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@fukt.bsnet.se</email>
 
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          <email>belorn@recompile.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@fukt.bsnet.se</email>
 
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          <email>teddy@recompile.se</email>
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        </address>
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      </author>
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    </authorgroup>
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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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      <holder>Teddy Hogeborn</holder>
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      <holder>Björn Påhlsson</holder>
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    </copyright>
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      ><refentrytitle>mandos</refentrytitle>
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      <manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>, read by it at startup.
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      The file needs to list all clients that should be able to use
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      the service.  All clients listed will be regarded as enabled,
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      even if a client was disabled in a previous run of the server.
 
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      the service.  The settings in this file can be overridden by
 
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      runtime changes to the server, which it saves across restarts.
 
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      (See the section called <quote>PERSISTENT STATE</quote> in
 
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      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>mandos</refentrytitle><manvolnum
 
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      >8</manvolnum></citerefentry>.)  However, any <emphasis
 
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      >changes</emphasis> to this file (including adding and removing
 
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      clients) will, at startup, override changes done during runtime.
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    </para>
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    <para>
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      The format starts with a <literal>[<replaceable>section
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      </varlistentry>
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      <varlistentry>
 
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        <term><option>extended_timeout<literal> = </literal><replaceable
 
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        >TIME</replaceable></option></term>
 
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        <listitem>
 
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          <para>
 
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            This option is <emphasis>optional</emphasis>.
 
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            Extended timeout is an added timeout that is given once
 
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            after a password has been sent successfully to a client.
 
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            The timeout is by default longer than the normal timeout,
 
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            and is used for handling the extra long downtime while a
 
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            machine is booting up.  Time to take into consideration
 
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            when changing this value is file system checks and quota
 
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            checks.  The default value is 15 minutes.
 
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          </para>
 
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            The format of <replaceable>TIME</replaceable> is the same
 
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            as for <varname>timeout</varname> below.
 
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      <varlistentry>
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        <term><option>fingerprint<literal> = </literal
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        ><replaceable>HEXSTRING</replaceable></option></term>
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        <listitem>
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            will wait for a checker to complete until the below
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            <quote><varname>timeout</varname></quote> occurs, at which
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            time the client will be disabled, and any running checker
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            killed.  The default interval is 5 minutes.
 
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            killed.  The default interval is 2 minutes.
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          </para>
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            The format of <replaceable>TIME</replaceable> is the same
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            This option is <emphasis>optional</emphasis>.
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          </para>
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            The timeout is how long the server will wait (for either a
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            successful checker run or a client receiving its secret)
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            until a client is disabled and not allowed to get the data
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            this server holds.  By default Mandos will use 1 hour.
 
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            The timeout is how long the server will wait, after a
 
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            <option>extended_timeout</option> option.
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          </para>
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        >1</literal> | <literal>yes</literal> | <literal>true</literal
 
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        > | <literal >on</literal> | <literal>0</literal> | <literal
 
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            Whether this client should be enabled by default.  The
 
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    </variablelist>
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  </refsect1>
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        <quote><literal>%%(<replaceable>foo</replaceable>)s</literal
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        ></quote> will be replaced by the value of the attribute
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        <quote><classname>Client</classname></quote> object.  See the
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        source code for details, and let the authors know of any
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        attributes that are useful so they may be preserved to any new
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        <quote><classname>Client</classname></quote> object in the
 
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        Mandos server.  The currently allowed values for
 
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        <quote><literal>approval_delay</literal></quote>,
 
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        <quote><literal>approval_duration</literal></quote>,
 
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        <quote><literal>host</literal></quote>,
 
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checker = fping -q -- %%(host)s
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# Client "foo"
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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>mandos-keygen</refentrytitle>
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      <manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
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      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>mandos.conf</refentrytitle>