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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2010-09-12 03:00:40 UTC
  • Revision ID: teddy@fukt.bsnet.se-20100912030040-b0uopyennste9fdh
Documentation changes:

* DBUS-API: New file documenting the server D-Bus interface.

* clients.conf: Add examples of new approval settings.

* debian/mandos.docs: Added "DBUS-API".

* mandos-clients.conf.xml (OPTIONS): Added "approved_by_default",
                                     "approval_delay", and
                                     "approval_duration".
* mandos.xml (D-BUS INTERFACE): Refer to the "DBUS-API" file.
  (BUGS): Remove mention of lack of a remote query interface.

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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 COMMANDNAME "mandos-client">
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2012-05-27">
 
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2009-02-09">
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<!ENTITY % common SYSTEM "../common.ent">
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%common;
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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@recompile.se</email>
 
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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@recompile.se</email>
 
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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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      <year>2009</year>
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      <year>2012</year>
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      <holder>Teddy Hogeborn</holder>
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      <holder>Björn Påhlsson</holder>
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    </copyright>
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      </arg>
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      <sbr/>
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      <arg>
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        <option>--retry <replaceable>SECONDS</replaceable></option>
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      </arg>
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      <sbr/>
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      <arg>
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        <option>--network-hook-dir
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        <replaceable>DIR</replaceable></option>
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      </arg>
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      <sbr/>
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      <arg>
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        <option>--debug</option>
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      </arg>
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    </cmdsynopsis>
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      using TLS with an OpenPGP key to ensure authenticity and
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      confidentiality.  This client program keeps running, trying all
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      servers on the network, until it receives a satisfactory reply
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      or a TERM signal.  After all servers have been tried, all
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      servers are periodically retried.  If no servers are found it
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      will wait indefinitely for new servers to appear.
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    </para>
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    <para>
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      The network interface is selected like this: If an interface is
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      specified using the <option>--interface</option> option, that
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      interface is used.  Otherwise, <command>&COMMANDNAME;</command>
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      will choose any interface that is up and running and is not a
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      loopback interface, is not a point-to-point interface, is
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      capable of broadcasting and does not have the NOARP flag (see
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      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>netdevice</refentrytitle>
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      <manvolnum>7</manvolnum></citerefentry>).  (If the
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      <option>--connect</option> option is used, point-to-point
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      interfaces and non-broadcast interfaces are accepted.)  If no
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      acceptable interfaces are found, re-run the check but without
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      the <quote>up and running</quote> requirement, and manually take
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      the selected interface up (and later take it down on program
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      exit).
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    </para>
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    <para>
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      Before a network interface is selected, all <quote>network
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      hooks</quote> are run; see <xref linkend="network-hooks"/>.
 
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      or a TERM signal is received.  If no servers are found, or after
 
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      servers to appear.
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    </para>
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    <para>
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      This program is not meant to be run directly; it is really meant
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            can not be a pseudo-interface such as <quote>br0</quote>
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            or <quote>tun0</quote>; such interfaces will not exist
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            until much later in the boot process, and can not be used
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            by this program, unless created by a <quote>network
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            hook</quote> — see <xref linkend="network-hooks"/>.
 
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            by this program.
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          </para>
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          <para>
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            <replaceable>NAME</replaceable> can be the string
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        <term><option>--retry=<replaceable
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        >SECONDS</replaceable></option></term>
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            All Mandos servers are tried repeatedly until a password
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            server</emphasis>.  The default is 10 seconds.
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        <term><option>--network-hook-dir=<replaceable
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        >DIR</replaceable></option></term>
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            Network hook directory.  The default directory is
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        <term><option>--debug</option></term>
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      <refentrytitle>plugin-runner</refentrytitle>
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      <manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum></citerefentry>) is used to run
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      <emphasis>one</emphasis> of which (<citerefentry>
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      <refentrytitle>password-prompt</refentrytitle>
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      <manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum></citerefentry>) will prompt for
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      server could be found and the password received from it could be
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      discovered <application>Mandos</application> servers, trying to
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