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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2014-08-10 14:13:02 UTC
  • Revision ID: teddy@recompile.se-20140810141302-8q1xaaxlh8ho5joz
Emit D-Bus "org.freedesktop.DBus.Properties.PropertiesChanged" signal.

This deprecates the "se.recompile.Mandos.Client.PropertyChanged"
signal.  The new signal also adds support for noticing changes to the
"se.recompile.Mandos.Client.Secret" write-only property.

* mandos (dbus_annotations): Fix usage example in doc string.
  (DBusObjectWithProperties.PropertiesChanged): New; from D-Bus
                                                standard.
  (ClientDBus._interface): Set early instead of later.
  (ClientDBus.notifychangeproperty): Take new "invalidate_only"
                                     parameter, and pass in _interface
                                     as a default keyword argument.
  (ClientDBus.notifychangeproperty/setter): Also emit
                                            PropertiesChanged signal;
                                            emit new value or
                                            invalidation depending on
                                            "invalidate_only".
  (ClientDBus.secret): Apply notifychangeproperty with
                       "invalidate_only=True".
  (ClientDBus._foo): Removed defunct interface annotation.
  (ClientDBus.PropertyChanged): Add annotation; this method is now
                                deprecated.
  (main/MandosDBusService.GetAllClientsWithProperties): Use dictionary
                                                        comprehension.
* DBUS-API (Mandos Client Interface/Signals/PropertyChanged): Removed.
* mandos-monitor: Use standard "PropertiesChanged" signal instead of
                  old signal "PropertyChanged".
  (MandosClientPropertyCache.__init__): Connect to signal
                                        PropertiesChanged instead of
                                        PropertyChanged.
  (MandosClientPropertyCache._property_changed): Removed.
  (MandosClientPropertyCache.property_changed): Renamed to
                                                "properties_changed"
                                                and adapted to new
                                                call signature.
  (MandosClientWidget.properties_changed): - '' -

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<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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<!ENTITY COMMANDNAME "mandos-client">
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2011-08-08">
 
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2014-06-22">
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<!ENTITY % common SYSTEM "../common.ent">
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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@fukt.bsnet.se</email>
 
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          <email>belorn@recompile.se</email>
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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@fukt.bsnet.se</email>
 
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          <email>teddy@recompile.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>2012</year>
 
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      <year>2013</year>
 
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      <year>2014</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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        ><replaceable>PORT</replaceable></option></arg>
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      </group>
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      <sbr/>
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      <group rep='repeat'>
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        <arg choice="plain"><option>--interface
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        <replaceable>NAME</replaceable></option></arg>
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        <replaceable>NAME</replaceable></option></arg>
 
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        <replaceable>NAME</replaceable><arg rep='repeat'
 
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        <arg choice="plain"><option>-i <replaceable>NAME</replaceable
 
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      <group>
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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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        <option>--debug</option>
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    </cmdsynopsis>
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      communicates with <citerefentry><refentrytitle
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      >mandos</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
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      to get a password.  In slightly more detail, this client program
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      brings up a network interface, uses the interface’s IPv6
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      link-local address to get network connectivity, uses Zeroconf to
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      find servers on the local network, and communicates with servers
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      using TLS with an OpenPGP key to ensure authenticity and
 
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      brings up network interfaces, uses the interfaces’ IPv6
 
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      link-local addresses to get network connectivity, uses Zeroconf
 
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      servers 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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      will wait indefinitely for new servers to appear.
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    <para>
 
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      The network interfaces are selected like this: If any interfaces
 
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      are specified using the <option>--interface</option> option,
 
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      those interface are used.  Otherwise,
 
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      <command>&COMMANDNAME;</command> will use all interfaces that
 
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      are not loopback interfaces, are not point-to-point interfaces,
 
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      are capable of broadcasting and do 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 any
 
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      Before network interfaces are selected, all <quote>network
 
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      This program is not meant to be run directly; it is really meant
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      to run as a plugin of the <application>Mandos</application>
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      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>plugin-runner</refentrytitle>
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            assumed to separate the address from the port number.
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            This option is normally only useful for testing and
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        <term><option>--interface=<replaceable
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            Network interface that will be brought up and scanned for
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              <envar>MODE</envar> is
 
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        restrictive in printing to standard output or standard error
 
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    <variablelist>
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        <term><filename
 
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        class="directory">/lib/mandos/network-hooks.d</filename></term>
 
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            Directory where network hooks are located.  Change this
 
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        Normal invocation needs no options, if the network interface
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        is <quote>eth0</quote>:
 
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        Normal invocation needs no options, if the network interfaces
 
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        can be automatically determined:
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      <para>
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        <userinput>&COMMANDNAME;</userinput>
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    <informalexample>
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        Search for Mandos servers (and connect to them) using another
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        interface:
 
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        Search for Mandos servers (and connect to them) using one
 
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        specific interface:
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      <para>
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    <para>
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      It will also help if the checker program on the server is
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      configured to request something from the client which can not be
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      spoofed by someone else on the network, unlike unencrypted
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      <acronym>ICMP</acronym> echo (<quote>ping</quote>) replies.
 
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      spoofed by someone else on the network, like SSH server key
 
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      fingerprints, and unlike unencrypted <acronym>ICMP</acronym>
 
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      echo (<quote>ping</quote>) replies.
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    <para>
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      <emphasis>Note</emphasis>: This makes it completely insecure to
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                This client uses IPv6 link-local addresses, which are
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                immediately usable since a link-local addresses is
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                automatically assigned to a network interfaces when it
 
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                automatically assigned to a network interface when it
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                is brought up.
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