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Debian 5.0 "lenny" or Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron".
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This is mostly for the support scripts which make sure that the
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client is installed and started in the initial RAM disk environment
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and that the initrd.img file is automatically made unreadable. The
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server and client programs themselves *could* be run in other
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distributions, but they *are* specific to GNU/Linux systems, and
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are not intended to be portable to other Unixes.
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The following libraries and packages are needed. (It is possible
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that it might work with older versions of some of these, but these
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versions are confirmed to work. Newer versions are almost
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These are required to build the manual pages for both the server
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+ DocBook 4.5 http://www.docbook.org/
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Note: DocBook 5.0 is not compatible.
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+ DocBook XSL stylesheets 1.71.0
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http://wiki.docbook.org/topic/DocBookXslStylesheets
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To build just the documentation, run the command "make doc". Then
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the manual page "mandos.8", for example, can be read by running
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+ GnuTLS 2.4 http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/
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+ Avahi 0.6.16 http://www.avahi.org/
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+ Python 2.5 http://www.python.org/
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+ Python-GnuTLS 1.1.5 http://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-gnutls/
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+ dbus-python 0.82.4 http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-python/
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+ python-ctypes 1.0.0 http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ctypes
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+ PyGObject 2.14.2 http://library.gnome.org/devel/pygobject/
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+ fping 2.4b2-to-ipv6 http://www.fping.com/
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python-gnutls avahi-daemon python python-avahi python-dbus
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python-ctypes python-gobject
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+ initramfs-tools 0.85i
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http://packages.qa.debian.org/i/initramfs-tools.html
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+ GnuTLS 2.4 http://www.gnu.org/software/gnutls/
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+ Avahi 0.6.16 http://www.avahi.org/
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+ GnuPG 1.4.9 http://www.gnupg.org/
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+ GPGME 1.1.6 http://www.gnupg.org/related_software/gpgme/
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initramfs-tools libgnutls-dev libavahi-core-dev gnupg
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* Installing the Mandos server
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2. On the computer to run as a Mandos server, run the following
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For Debian: su -c 'make install-server'
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For Ubuntu: sudo make install-server
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(This creates a configuration without any clients configured; you
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need an actually configured client to do that; see below.)
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* Installing the Mandos client.
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2. On the computer to run as a Mandos client, run the following
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For Debian: su -c 'make install-client'
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For Ubuntu: sudo make install-client
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This will also create an OpenPGP key, which will take some time
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and entropy, so be patient.
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3. Run the following command:
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For Debian: su -c 'mandos-keygen --password'
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For Ubuntu: sudo mandos-keygen --password
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When prompted, enter the password/passphrase for the encrypted
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root file system on this client computer. The command will
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output a section of text, starting with a [section header]. Copy
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and append this to the file "/etc/mandos/clients.conf" *on the
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4. Configure the client to use the correct network interface. The
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default is "eth0", and if this needs to be adjusted, it will be
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necessary to edit /etc/mandos/plugin-runner.conf to uncomment and
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change the line there. If that file is changed, the initrd.img
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file must be updated, possibly using the following command:
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# update-initramfs -k all -u
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5. On the server computer, start the server by running the command
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For Debian: su -c 'invoke-rc.d mandos start'
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For Ubuntu: sudo invoke-rc.d mandos start
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At this point, it is possible to verify that the correct password
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will be received by the client by running the command:
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# /usr/lib/mandos/plugins.d/mandos-client \
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--pubkey=/etc/keys/mandos/pubkey.txt \
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--seckey=/etc/keys/mandos/seckey.txt; echo
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This command should retrieve the password from the server,
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decrypt it, and output it to standard output.
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After this, the client computer should be able to reboot without
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needing a password entered on the console, as long as it does not
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take more than an hour to reboot.
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* Further customizations
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You may want to tighten or loosen the timeouts in the server
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configuration files; see mandos.conf(5) and mandos-clients.conf(5).
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If IPsec is not used, it is suggested that a more cryptographically
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secure checker program is used and configured, since without IPsec
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ping packets can be faked.
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