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<refname><filename>&CONFNAME;</filename></refname>
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Configuration file for the Mandos server
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Configuration file for Mandos clients
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<synopsis>&CONFPATH;</synopsis>
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<refsect1 id="description">
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<title>DESCRIPTION</title>
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The file &CONFPATH; is a configuration file for <citerefentry
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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 format starts with a <literal>[<replaceable>section
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header</replaceable>]</literal> which is either
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<literal>[DEFAULT]</literal> or <literal>[<replaceable>client
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name</replaceable>]</literal>. The <replaceable>client
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name</replaceable> can be anything, and is not tied to a host
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name. Following the section header is any number of
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<quote><varname><replaceable>option</replaceable
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></varname>=<replaceable>value</replaceable></quote> entries,
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with continuations in the style of RFC 822. <quote><varname
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><replaceable>option</replaceable></varname>: <replaceable
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>value</replaceable></quote> is also accepted. Note that
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leading whitespace is removed from values. Values can contain
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format strings which refer to other values in the same section,
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or values in the <quote>DEFAULT</quote> section (see <xref
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linkend="expansion"/>). Lines beginning with <quote>#</quote>
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or <quote>;</quote> are ignored and may be used to provide
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<refsect1 id="options">
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<title>OPTIONS</title>
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<emphasis>Note:</emphasis> all option values are subject to
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start time expansion, see <xref linkend="expansion"/>.
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Unknown options are ignored. The used options are as follows:
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<term><option>approval_delay<literal> = </literal><replaceable
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>TIME</replaceable></option></term>
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This option is <emphasis>optional</emphasis>.
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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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The format of <replaceable>TIME</replaceable> is the same
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as for <varname>timeout</varname> below.
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<term><option>approval_duration<literal> = </literal
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><replaceable>TIME</replaceable></option></term>
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This option is <emphasis>optional</emphasis>.
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How long an external approval lasts. The default is 1
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The format of <replaceable>TIME</replaceable> is the same
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as for <varname>timeout</varname> below.
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<term><option>approved_by_default<literal> = </literal
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>{ <literal >1</literal> | <literal>yes</literal> | <literal
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>true</literal> | <literal>on</literal> | <literal
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>0</literal> | <literal>no</literal> | <literal
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>false</literal> | <literal>off</literal> }</option></term>
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Whether to approve a client by default after
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the <option>approval_delay</option>. The default
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is <quote>True</quote>.
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<term><option>checker<literal> = </literal><replaceable
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>COMMAND</replaceable></option></term>
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This option is <emphasis>optional</emphasis>.
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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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<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 finds one, outputs
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a <option>checker</option> option to check for the
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client’s SSH key fingerprint – this is more secure against
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In addition to normal start time expansion, this option
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will also be subject to runtime expansion; see <xref
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linkend="expansion"/>.
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<term><option>extended_timeout<literal> = </literal><replaceable
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>TIME</replaceable></option></term>
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This option is <emphasis>optional</emphasis>.
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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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The timeout is by default longer than the normal timeout,
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and is used for handling the extra long downtime while a
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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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The format of <replaceable>TIME</replaceable> is the same
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as for <varname>timeout</varname> below.
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<term><option>fingerprint<literal> = </literal
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><replaceable>HEXSTRING</replaceable></option></term>
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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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through TLS. The string needs to be in hexadecimal form,
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but spaces or upper/lower case are not significant.
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<term><option>key_id<literal> = </literal
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><replaceable>HEXSTRING</replaceable></option></term>
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This option is <emphasis>optional</emphasis>.
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This option sets the certificate key ID that identifies
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the public key that clients authenticate themselves with
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through TLS. The string needs to be in hexadecimal form,
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but spaces or upper/lower case are not significant.
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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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checker. See the <option>checker</option> option.
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<term><option>interval<literal> = </literal><replaceable
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>TIME</replaceable></option></term>
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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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not be started if an old one is still running. The server
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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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The format of <replaceable>TIME</replaceable> is the same
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as for <varname>timeout</varname> below.
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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>secret<literal> = </literal><replaceable
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>BASE64_ENCODED_DATA</replaceable></option></term>
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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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to the client matching the above <option>key_id</option>
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or <option>fingerprint</option>. This should, of course,
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be OpenPGP encrypted data, decryptable only by the client.
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The program <citerefentry><refentrytitle><command
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>mandos-keygen</command></refentrytitle><manvolnum
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>8</manvolnum></citerefentry> can, using its
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<option>--password</option> option, be used to generate
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Note: this value of this option will probably be very
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long. A useful feature to avoid having unreadably-long
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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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<term><option>timeout<literal> = </literal><replaceable
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>TIME</replaceable></option></term>
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This option is <emphasis>optional</emphasis>.
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The timeout is how long the server will wait, after a
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successful checker run, until a client is disabled and not
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allowed to get the data this server holds. By default
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Mandos will use 5 minutes. See also the
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<option>extended_timeout</option> option.
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The <replaceable>TIME</replaceable> is specified as an RFC
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3339 duration; for example
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<quote><literal>P1Y2M3DT4H5M6S</literal></quote> meaning
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one year, two months, three days, four hours, five
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minutes, and six seconds. Some values can be omitted, see
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RFC 3339 Appendix A for details.
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<term><option>enabled<literal> = </literal>{ <literal
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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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>no</literal> | <literal>false</literal> | <literal
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>off</literal> }</option></term>
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Whether this client should be enabled by default. The
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default is <quote>true</quote>.
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<refsect1 id="expansion">
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<title>EXPANSION</title>
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There are two forms of expansion: Start time expansion and
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<refsect2 id="start_time_expansion">
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<title>START TIME EXPANSION</title>
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Any string in an option value of the form
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<quote><literal>%(<replaceable>foo</replaceable>)s</literal
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></quote> will be replaced by the value of the option
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<varname>foo</varname> either in the same section, or, if it
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does not exist there, the <literal>[DEFAULT]</literal>
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section. This is done at start time, when the configuration
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Note that this means that, in order to include an actual
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percent character (<quote>%</quote>) in an option value, two
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percent characters in a row (<quote>%%</quote>) must be
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<title>RUNTIME EXPANSION</title>
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This is currently only done for the <varname>checker</varname>
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Any string in an option value of the form
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<quote><literal>%%(<replaceable>foo</replaceable>)s</literal
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></quote> will be replaced by the value of the attribute
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<varname>foo</varname> of the internal
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<quote><classname>Client</classname></quote> object in the
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Mandos server. The currently allowed values for
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<replaceable>foo</replaceable> are:
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<quote><literal>approval_delay</literal></quote>,
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<quote><literal>approval_duration</literal></quote>,
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<quote><literal>created</literal></quote>,
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<quote><literal>enabled</literal></quote>,
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<quote><literal>expires</literal></quote>,
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<quote><literal>key_id</literal></quote>,
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<quote><literal>fingerprint</literal></quote>,
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<quote><literal>host</literal></quote>,
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<quote><literal>interval</literal></quote>,
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<quote><literal>last_approval_request</literal></quote>,
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<quote><literal>last_checked_ok</literal></quote>,
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<quote><literal>last_enabled</literal></quote>,
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<quote><literal>name</literal></quote>,
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<quote><literal>timeout</literal></quote>, and, if using
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D-Bus, <quote><literal>dbus_object_path</literal></quote>.
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See the source code for details. <emphasis role="strong"
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>Currently, <emphasis>none</emphasis> of these attributes
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except <quote><literal>host</literal></quote> are guaranteed
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to be valid in future versions.</emphasis> Therefore, please
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let the authors know of any attributes that are useful so they
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may be preserved to any new versions of this software.
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Note that this means that, in order to include an actual
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percent character (<quote>%</quote>) in a
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<varname>checker</varname> option, <emphasis>four</emphasis>
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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 expose an error of this kind.
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<refsect1 id="files">
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The file described here is &CONFPATH;
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The format for specifying times for <varname>timeout</varname>
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and <varname>interval</varname> is not very good.
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The difference between
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<literal>%%(<replaceable>foo</replaceable>)s</literal> and
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<literal>%(<replaceable>foo</replaceable>)s</literal> is
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<xi:include href="bugs.xml"/>
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<refsect1 id="example">
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<title>EXAMPLE</title>
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The file &CONFPATH; is the configuration file for mandos where
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each client that will be abel to use the service need to be
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specified. The configuration file is looked on at the startup of
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the service, so to reenable timedout clients one need to only
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restart the server. The format starts with a section under []
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which is eather <literal>[DEFAULT]</literal> or a client
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name. Values is set through the use of VAR = VALUE pair. Values
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<refsect1 id="default">
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<title>DEFAULTS</title>
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The paramters for <literal>[DEFAULT]</literal> are:
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<term><literal>timeout</literal></term>
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This option allows you to override the default timeout
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that clients will get. By default mandos will use 1hr.
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<term><literal>interval</literal></term>
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This option allows you to override the default interval
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used between checkups for disconnected clients. By default
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<term><literal>checker</literal></term>
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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 up if the client
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is still up. By default mandos will "fping -q -- %%(host)s"
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<refsect1 id="clients">
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<title>CLIENTS</title>
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The paramters for clients are:
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<term><literal>fingerprint</literal></term>
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This option sets the openpgp fingerprint that identifies
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the public certificate that clients authenticates themself
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through gnutls. The string need to be in hex-decimal form.
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<term><literal>secret</literal></term>
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Base 64 encoded OpenPGP encrypted password encrypted by
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the clients openpgp certificate.
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<term><literal>secfile</literal></term>
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Base 64 encoded OpenPGP encrypted password encrypted by
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the clients openpgp certificate as a binary file.
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<term><literal>host</literal></term>
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Host name that can be used in for checking that the client is up.
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<term><literal>checker</literal></term>
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Shell command that the server will use to check up if a
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<term><literal>timeout</literal></term>
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Duration that a client can be down whitout be removed from
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<refsect1 id="examples">
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<title>EXAMPLES</title>
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<informalexample>
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checker = fping -q -- %%(host)s
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key_id = 788cd77115cd0bb7b2d5e0ae8496f6b48149d5e712c652076b1fd2d957ef7c1f
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fingerprint = 7788 2722 5BA7 DE53 9C5A 7CFA 59CF F7CD BD9A 5920
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