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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2015-06-28 16:35:27 UTC
  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 759.
  • Revision ID: teddy@recompile.se-20150628163527-cky0ec59zew7teua
Add a plugin helper directory, available to all plugins.

* Makefile (PLUGIN_HELPERS): New; list of plugin helpers.
  (CPROGS): Appended "$(PLUGIN_HELPERS)".
* initramfs-tools-hook: Create new plugin helper directory, and copy
                        plugin helpers provided by the system and/or
                        by the local administrator.
  (PLUGINHELPERDIR): New.
* plugin-runner.c: Take new --plugin-helper-dir option and provide
                   environment variable to all plugins.
  (PHDIR): New; set to "/lib/mandos/plugin-helpers".
  (main/pluginhelperdir): New.
  (main/options): New option "--plugin-helper-dir".
  (main/parse_opt, main/parse_opt_config_file): Accept new option.
  (main): Use new option to set MANDOSPLUGINHELPERDIR environment
          variable as if using --global-env MANDOSPLUGINHELPERDIR=...
* plugin-runner.xml: Document new --plugin-helper-dir option.
  (SYNOPSIS, OPTIONS): Add "--plugin-helper-dir" option.
  (PLUGINS/WRITING PLUGINS): Document new environment variable
                             available to plugins.
  (ENVIRONMENT): Document new environment variable
                 "MANDOSPLUGINHELPERDIR" affected by the new
                 --plugin-helper-dir option.

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INSTALL
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** Operating System
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   Debian 8.0 "jessie" or Ubuntu 15.10 "Wily Werewolf" (or later).
 
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   Debian 6.0 "squeeze" or Ubuntu 10.10 "Maverick Meerkat" (or later).
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   This is mostly for the support scripts which make sure that the
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   client is installed and started in the initial RAM disk environment
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    "man -l mandos.8".
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*** Mandos Server
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    + GnuTLS 3.3          https://www.gnutls.org/
 
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    + GnuTLS 2.4          http://www.gnutls.org/
 
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      Note: GnuTLS 3 will only work with Python-GnuTLS 2
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    + Avahi 0.6.16        http://www.avahi.org/
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    + Python 2.7          https://www.python.org/
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    + dbus-python 0.82.4 https://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-python/
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    + PyGObject 3.7.1     https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/PyGObject
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    + pkg-config https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pkg-config/
 
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    + Python-GnuTLS 1.1.5 https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-gnutls/
 
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    + dbus-python 0.82.4  http://dbus.freedesktop.org/doc/dbus-python/
 
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    + PyGObject 2.14.2    https://developer.gnome.org/pygobject/
 
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    + pkg-config  http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pkg-config/
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    + Urwid 1.0.1         http://urwid.org/
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      (Only needed by the "mandos-monitor" tool.)
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    + ssh-keyscan from OpenSSH http://www.openssh.com/
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    Package names:
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    avahi-daemon python python-dbus python-gi python-urwid pkg-config
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    fping ssh-client
 
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    python-gnutls avahi-daemon python python-avahi python-dbus
 
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    python-gobject python-urwid pkg-config fping ssh-client
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*** Mandos Client
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    + GNU C Library 2.16 https://gnu.org/software/libc/
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    + initramfs-tools 0.85i
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                        https://tracker.debian.org/pkg/initramfs-tools
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    + GnuTLS 3.3        https://www.gnutls.org/
 
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    + GnuTLS 2.4        http://www.gnutls.org/
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    + Avahi 0.6.16      http://www.avahi.org/
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    + GnuPG 1.4.9       https://www.gnupg.org/
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    + GPGME 1.1.6       https://www.gnupg.org/related_software/gpgme/
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    + pkg-config https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pkg-config/
 
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    + pkg-config  http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pkg-config/
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    Strongly recommended:
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    + OpenSSH           http://www.openssh.com/