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    <title>Mandos Manual</title>
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    <productname>Mandos</productname>
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        <firstname>Björn</firstname>
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        <surname>Påhlsson</surname>
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          <email>belorn@recompile.se</email>
 
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        <firstname>Teddy</firstname>
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        <surname>Hogeborn</surname>
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          <email>teddy@recompile.se</email>
 
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      <holder>Teddy Hogeborn</holder>
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      <holder>Teddy Hogeborn &amp; Björn Påhlsson</holder>
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        This manual page is free software: you can redistribute it
 
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        License as published by the Free Software Foundation,
 
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        either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any
 
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        This manual page is distributed in the hope that it will
 
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        implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A
 
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        PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License
 
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        You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
 
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      Configuration file for the Mandos server
 
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      &CONFPATH;
 
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      The file &CONFPATH; is a simple configuration file for
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      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>mandos</refentrytitle>
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      <manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>, and is read by it at
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      startup.  The configuration file starts with <quote><literal
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      ></varname>=<replaceable>value</replaceable></quote> entries,
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      >value</replaceable></quote> is also accepted.  Note that
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      <quote>#</quote> or <quote>;</quote> are ignored and may be used
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        <term><option>interface<literal> = </literal><replaceable
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                is brought up.
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