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        "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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<!ENTITY VERSION "1.0">
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<!ENTITY COMMANDNAME "password-prompt">
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2008-09-06">
 
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2008-08-31">
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<refentry xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
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      is not very useful on its own.  This program is really meant to
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      run as a plugin in the <application>Mandos</application>
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      client-side system, where it is used as a fallback and
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      alternative to retrieving passwords from a <application
 
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      alternative to retriving passwords from a <application
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      >Mandos</application> server.
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    </para>
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    <para>
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          <manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum></citerefentry>, which will
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          normally have inherited them from
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          <filename>/scripts/local-top/cryptroot</filename> in the
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          initial <acronym>RAM</acronym> disk environment, which will
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          have set them from parsing kernel arguments and
 
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          initial RAM disk environment, which will have set them from
 
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          parsing kernel arguments and
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          <filename>/conf/conf.d/cryptroot</filename> (also in the
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          initial RAM disk environment), which in turn will have been
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          created when the initial RAM disk image was created by
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      <para>
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        Show a prefix before the prompt; in this case, a host name.
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        It might be useful to be reminded of which host needs a
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        password, in case of <acronym>KVM</acronym> switches, etc.
 
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        password, in case of KVM switches, etc.
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      </para>
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      <para>
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      >plugin-runner</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum>
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      </citerefentry>, and will, when run standalone, outside, in a
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      normal environment, immediately output on its standard output
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      any presumably secret password it just received.  Therefore,
 
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      any presumably secret password it just recieved.  Therefore,
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      when running this program standalone (which should never
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      normally be done), take care not to type in any real secret
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      password by force of habit, since it would then immediately be
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    <para>
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      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>crypttab</refentrytitle>
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      <manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
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      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>mandos-client</refentrytitle>
 
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      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>password-request</refentrytitle>
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      <manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum></citerefentry>
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      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>plugin-runner</refentrytitle>
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      <manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum></citerefentry>,