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<refentry xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
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<title>&CONFNAME;</title>
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<title>Mandos Manual</title>
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<productname>&CONFNAME;</productname>
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<productnumber>&VERSION;</productnumber>
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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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<firstname>Björn</firstname>
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<holder>Teddy Hogeborn</holder>
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<holder>Björn Påhlsson</holder>
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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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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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License along with this program; If not, see
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<ulink url="http://www.gnu.org/licenses/"/>.
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<refentrytitle>&CONFNAME;</refentrytitle>
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<manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
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start time expansion, see <xref linkend="expansion"/>.
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Uknown options are ignored. The used options are as follows:
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Unknown options are ignored. The used options are as follows:
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<term><literal><varname>timeout</varname></literal></term>
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<term><option>timeout<literal> = </literal><replaceable
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>TIME</replaceable></option></term>
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<synopsis><literal>timeout = </literal><replaceable
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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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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 <replaceable>TIME</replaceable> is specified as a
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<term><literal><varname>interval</varname></literal></term>
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<term><option>interval<literal> = </literal><replaceable
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>TIME</replaceable></option></term>
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<synopsis><literal>interval = </literal><replaceable
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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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as for <varname>timeout</varname> above.
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<term><literal>checker</literal></term>
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<term><option>checker<literal> = </literal><replaceable
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>COMMAND</replaceable></option></term>
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<synopsis><literal>checker = </literal><replaceable
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>COMMAND</replaceable>
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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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<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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<term><literal>fingerprint</literal></term>
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<term><option>fingerprint<literal> = </literal
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><replaceable>HEXSTRING</replaceable></option></term>
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<synopsis><literal>fingerprint = </literal><replaceable
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>HEXSTRING</replaceable>
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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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<term><literal>secret</literal></term>
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<term><option>secret<literal> = </literal><replaceable
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>BASE64_ENCODED_DATA</replaceable></option></term>
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<synopsis><literal>secret = </literal><replaceable
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>BASE64_ENCODED_DATA</replaceable>
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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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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><literal>secfile</literal></term>
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<synopsis><literal>secfile = </literal><replaceable
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>FILENAME</replaceable>
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The same as <option>secret</option>, but the secret data
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is in an external file. The contents of the file should
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<emphasis>not</emphasis> be base64-encoded, but will be
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sent to clients verbatim.
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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><literal>host</literal></term>
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<synopsis><literal>host = </literal><replaceable
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>STRING</replaceable>
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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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<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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percent characters in a row (<quote>%%%%</quote>) must be
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entered. Also, a bad format here will lead to an immediate
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but <emphasis>silent</emphasis> run-time fatal exit; debug
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mode is needed to track down an error of this kind.
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mode is needed to expose an error of this kind.
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<refsect1 id="files">
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<title>FILES</title>
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fingerprint = 3e393aeaefb84c7e89e2f547b3a107558fca3a27
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secfile = /etc/mandos/bar-secret
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</programlisting>
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</informalexample>
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<refsect1 id="see_also">
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<title>SEE ALSO</title>
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<refentrytitle>mandos</refentrytitle>
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<manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>, <citerefentry>
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<refentrytitle>mandos-keygen</refentrytitle>
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<manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>, <citerefentry>
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<refentrytitle>mandos.conf</refentrytitle>
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<manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>
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<citerefentry><refentrytitle>mandos-keygen</refentrytitle>
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<manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
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<citerefentry><refentrytitle>mandos.conf</refentrytitle>
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<manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
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<citerefentry><refentrytitle>mandos</refentrytitle>
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<manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
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