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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2010-09-26 17:44:43 UTC
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<!ENTITY CONFNAME "mandos-clients.conf">
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<!ENTITY CONFPATH "<filename>/etc/mandos/clients.conf</filename>">
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2016-02-28">
 
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2010-09-25">
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<!ENTITY % common SYSTEM "common.ent">
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%common;
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]>
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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>2010</year>
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      <year>2011</year>
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      <year>2012</year>
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      <year>2013</year>
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      <year>2014</year>
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      <year>2015</year>
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      <year>2016</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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      ><refentrytitle>mandos</refentrytitle>
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      <manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>, read by it at startup.
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      The file needs to list all clients that should be able to use
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      the service.  The settings in this file can be overridden by
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      runtime changes to the server, which it saves across restarts.
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      (See the section called <quote>PERSISTENT STATE</quote> in
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      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>mandos</refentrytitle><manvolnum
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      >8</manvolnum></citerefentry>.)  However, any <emphasis
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      >changes</emphasis> to this file (including adding and removing
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      clients) will, at startup, override changes done during runtime.
 
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      the service.  All clients listed will be regarded as enabled,
 
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      even if a client was disabled in a previous run of the server.
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    </para>
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    <para>
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      The format starts with a <literal>[<replaceable>section
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          <para>
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            How long to wait for external approval before resorting to
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            use the <option>approved_by_default</option> value.  The
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            default is <quote>PT0S</quote>, i.e. not to wait.
 
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            default is <quote>0s</quote>, i.e. not to wait.
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          </para>
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          <para>
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            The format of <replaceable>TIME</replaceable> is the same
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            This option is <emphasis>optional</emphasis>.
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          </para>
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          <para>
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            This option overrides the default shell command that the
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            server will use to check if the client is still up.  Any
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            output of the command will be ignored, only the exit code
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            is checked:  If the exit code of the command is zero, the
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            client is considered up.  The command will be run using
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            <quote><command><filename>/bin/sh</filename>
 
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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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            the exit code is checked:  If the exit code of the command
 
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            is zero, the client is considered up.  The command will be
 
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            run using <quote><command><filename>/bin/sh</filename>
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            <option>-c</option></command></quote>, so
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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>.  Note that
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            <command>mandos-keygen</command>, when generating output
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            to be inserted into this file, normally looks for an SSH
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            server on the Mandos client, and, if it find one, outputs
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            a <option>checker</option> option to check for the
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            client’s key fingerprint – this is more secure against
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            spoofing.
 
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            >--</option> %%(host)s</literal></quote>.
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          </para>
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            In addition to normal start time expansion, this option
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      </varlistentry>
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        <term><option>extended_timeout<literal> = </literal><replaceable
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        >TIME</replaceable></option></term>
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            Extended timeout is an added timeout that is given once
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            after a password has been sent successfully to a client.
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            machine is booting up.  Time to take into consideration
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            when changing this value is file system checks and quota
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            checks.  The default value is 15 minutes.
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        <term><option>fingerprint<literal> = </literal
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        ><replaceable>HEXSTRING</replaceable></option></term>
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            will wait for a checker to complete until the below
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            <quote><varname>timeout</varname></quote> occurs, at which
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            time the client will be disabled, and any running checker
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            killed.  The default interval is 2 minutes.
 
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            killed.  The default interval is 5 minutes.
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            The format of <replaceable>TIME</replaceable> is the same
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            This option is <emphasis>optional</emphasis>.
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            RFC 3339 Appendix A for details.
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        >1</literal> | <literal>yes</literal> | <literal>true</literal
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        > | <literal >on</literal> | <literal>0</literal> | <literal
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# Client "foo"
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fingerprint = 3e393aeaefb84c7e89e2f547b3a107558fca3a27
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    <title>SEE ALSO</title>
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      <manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
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