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<refentry xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
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<title>Mandos Manual</title>
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<productname>Mandos</productname>
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<productnumber>&version;</productnumber>
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<productnumber>&VERSION;</productnumber>
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<date>&TIMESTAMP;</date>
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start time expansion, see <xref linkend="expansion"/>.
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Unknown options are ignored. The used options are as follows:
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Uknown options are ignored. The used options are as follows:
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<term><option>timeout<literal> = </literal><replaceable
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>TIME</replaceable></option></term>
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This option is <emphasis>optional</emphasis>.
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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 considered invalid - that is, ineligible
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to get the data this server holds. By default Mandos will
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The timeout is how long the server will wait for a
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successful checker run until a client is considered
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invalid - that is, ineligible to get the data this server
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holds. By default Mandos will use 1 hour.
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The <replaceable>TIME</replaceable> is specified as a
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<term><option>interval<literal> = </literal><replaceable
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>TIME</replaceable></option></term>
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This option is <emphasis>optional</emphasis>.
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How often to run the checker to confirm that a client is
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still up. <emphasis>Note:</emphasis> a new checker will
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not be started if an old one is still running. The server
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<term><option>checker<literal> = </literal><replaceable
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>COMMAND</replaceable></option></term>
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This option is <emphasis>optional</emphasis>.
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This option allows you to override the default shell
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command that the server will use to check if the client is
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still up. Any output of the command will be ignored, only
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<varname>PATH</varname> will be searched. The default
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value for the checker command is <quote><literal
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><command>fping</command> <option>-q</option> <option
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>--</option> %%(host)s</literal></quote>.
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>--</option> %(host)s</literal></quote>.
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In addition to normal start time expansion, this option
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><replaceable>HEXSTRING</replaceable></option></term>
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This option is <emphasis>required</emphasis>.
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This option sets the OpenPGP fingerprint that identifies
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the public key that clients authenticate themselves with
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through TLS. The string needs to be in hexidecimal form,
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>BASE64_ENCODED_DATA</replaceable></option></term>
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If this option is not specified, the <option
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>secfile</option> option is <emphasis>required</emphasis>
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If present, this option must be set to a string of
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base64-encoded binary data. It will be decoded and sent
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to the client matching the above
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lines is that a line beginning with white space adds to
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the value of the previous line, RFC 822-style.
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If this option is not specified, the <option
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>secfile</option> option is used instead, but one of them
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<emphasis>must</emphasis> be present.
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<term><option>secfile<literal> = </literal><replaceable
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>FILENAME</replaceable></option></term>
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This option is only used if <option>secret</option> is not
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specified, in which case this option is
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<emphasis>required</emphasis>.
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Similar to the <option>secret</option>, except the secret
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data is in an external file. The contents of the file
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should <emphasis>not</emphasis> be base64-encoded, but
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will be sent to clients verbatim.
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File names of the form <filename>~user/foo/bar</filename>
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and <filename>$<envar>ENVVAR</envar>/foo/bar</filename>
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This option is only used, and <emphasis>must</emphasis> be
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present, if <option>secret</option> is not specified.
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<term><option><literal>host = </literal><replaceable
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>STRING</replaceable></option></term>
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This option is <emphasis>optional</emphasis>, but highly
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<emphasis>recommended</emphasis> unless the
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<option>checker</option> option is modified to a
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non-standard value without <quote>%%(host)s</quote> in it.
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Host name for this client. This is not used by the server
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directly, but can be, and is by default, used by the
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checker. See the <option>checker</option> option.