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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2018-02-12 15:03:06 UTC
  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 933.
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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 COMMANDNAME "mandos-client">
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2013-10-20">
 
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2018-02-08">
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<!ENTITY % common SYSTEM "../common.ent">
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%common;
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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>2014</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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      <holder>Teddy Hogeborn</holder>
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      <holder>Björn Påhlsson</holder>
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    </copyright>
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      </arg>
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      <sbr/>
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      <arg>
 
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        <option>--dh-params <replaceable>FILE</replaceable></option>
 
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      <sbr/>
 
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      <arg>
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        <option>--delay <replaceable>SECONDS</replaceable></option>
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      <sbr/>
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            assumed to separate the address from the port number.
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          </para>
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          <para>
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            This option is normally only useful for testing and
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            debugging.
 
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            Normally, Zeroconf would be used to locate Mandos servers,
 
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            in which case this option would only be used when testing
 
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            and debugging.
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            <replaceable>NAME</replaceable> can be the string
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            <quote><literal>none</literal></quote>; this will make
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            <command>&COMMANDNAME;</command> not bring up
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            <emphasis>any</emphasis> interfaces specified
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            <emphasis>after</emphasis> this string.  This is not
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            <command>&COMMANDNAME;</command> only bring up interfaces
 
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            Sets the number of bits to use for the prime number in the
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            TLS Diffie-Hellman key exchange.  Default is 1024.
 
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            TLS Diffie-Hellman key exchange.  The default value is
 
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        <term><option>--dh-params=<replaceable
 
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            Specifies a PEM-encoded PKCS#3 file to read the parameters
 
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      This program does not use any other environment variables, not
 
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