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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2008-08-01 07:04:32 UTC
  • Revision ID: teddy@fukt.bsnet.se-20080801070432-5t1q0ds0bjxojyoz
* plugins.d/plugbasedclient.c (main): Close the pipe fd after dup2:ing
                                      it onto stdout.

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<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?>
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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl"
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        href="http://docbook.sourceforge.net/release/xsl/current/manpages/docbook.xsl"?>
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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 VERSION "1.0">
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<!ENTITY COMMANDNAME "plugin-runner">
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2008-08-29">
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]>
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<refentry>
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  <refentryinfo>
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    <title>Mandos Manual</title>
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    <!-- NWalsh's docbook scripts use this to generate the footer: -->
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    <productname>Mandos</productname>
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    <productnumber>&VERSION;</productnumber>
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    <date>&TIMESTAMP;</date>
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    <authorgroup>
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      <author>
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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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        </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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        </address>
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      </author>
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    </authorgroup>
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    <copyright>
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      <year>2008</year>
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      <holder>Teddy Hogeborn &amp; Björn Påhlsson</holder>
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    </copyright>
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    <legalnotice>
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      <para>
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        This manual page is free software: you can redistribute it
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        and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public
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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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        later version.
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      </para>
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      <para>
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        This manual page is distributed in the hope that it will
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        be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the
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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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        for more details.
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      </para>
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      <para>
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        You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public
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        License along with this program; If not, see
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        <ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/"/>.
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      </para>
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    </legalnotice>
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  </refentryinfo>
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  <refmeta>
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    <refentrytitle>&COMMANDNAME;</refentrytitle>
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    <manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum>
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  </refmeta>
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  <refnamediv>
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    <refname><command>&COMMANDNAME;</command></refname>
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    <refpurpose>
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      get password for encrypted rootdisk
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    </refpurpose>
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  </refnamediv>
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  <refsynopsisdiv>
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    <cmdsynopsis>
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      <command>&COMMANDNAME;</command>
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      <arg choice='opt'>--global-options<arg choice='plain'>OPTIONS</arg></arg>
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      <arg choice='opt'>--options-for<arg choice='plain'>PLUGIN:OPTIONS</arg></arg>
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      <arg choice='opt'>--disable<arg choice='plain'>PLUGIN</arg></arg>
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      <arg choice='opt'>--groupid<arg choice='plain'>ID</arg></arg>
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      <arg choice='opt'>--userid<arg choice='plain'>ID</arg></arg>
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      <arg choice='opt'>--plugin-dir<arg choice='plain'>DIRECTORY</arg></arg>
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      <arg choice='opt'>--debug</arg>
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      <command>&COMMANDNAME;</command>
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      <arg choice='plain'>--help</arg>
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      <command>&COMMANDNAME;</command>
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      <arg choice='plain'>--usage</arg>
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      <command>&COMMANDNAME;</command>
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      <arg choice='plain'>--version</arg>
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    <title>DESCRIPTION</title>
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    <para>
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      <command>&COMMANDNAME;</command> is a plugin runner that waits
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      for any of its plugins to return sucessfull with a password, and
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      passes it to cryptsetup as stdout message. This command is not
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      meant to be invoked directly, but is instead meant to be run by
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      cryptsetup by being specified in /etc/crypttab as a keyscript
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      and subsequlently started in the initrd environment. See
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      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>crypttab</refentrytitle>
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      <manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry> for more information on
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      plugins is looked for in the plugins directory which by default will be
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      /conf/conf.d/mandos/plugins.d if not changed by option --plugin-dir.
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    <title>OPTIONS</title>
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        <term><literal>-g</literal>,<literal>--global-options
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        <replaceable>OPTIONS</replaceable></literal></term>
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          <para>
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            Global options given to all plugins as additional start
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            Disable a specific plugin
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