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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2015-07-01 20:01:26 UTC
  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 759.
  • Revision ID: teddy@recompile.se-20150701200126-qb3f6c3jcas2f4og
mandos-client: Try to start a plugin to add and remove a local route.

* debian/mandos-client.README.Debian: Add setting of environment
                                      variable MANDOSPLUGINHELPERDIR
                                      to command line testing
                                      mandos-client.
* mandos-client.c (raise_privileges): Moved to top of file.
                  (raise_privileges_permanently): - '' -
                  (lower_privileges): - '' -
                  (lower_privileges_permanently): - '' -
  (add_remove_local_route, add_local_route, remove_local_route): New.
  (start_mandos_communication): Set SOCK_CLOEXEC flag on socket.  Run
                                the above functions to add (and
                                remove) local route, if the conditions
                                indicates it could help.
  (run_network_hooks): Use O_DIRECTORY, O_PATH, and O_CLOEXEC flags
                       when opening network hook directory. Do
                       TEMP_FAILURE_RETRY around opening of /dev/null
                       and network hook executables.  Move redirecting
                       of stdout and stderr to as late as possible
                       before fexecve().
  (main): Use O_DIRECTORY and O_PATH when opening temporary directory.
* plugins.d/mandos-client.xml (ENVIRONMENT): Document usage of the
                                             MANDOSPLUGINHELPERDIR
                                             environment variable.

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
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<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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<!ENTITY % common SYSTEM "common.ent">
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    <copyright>
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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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      <year>2017</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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  <refsect1 id="introduction">
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    <title>INTRODUCTION</title>
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    <para>
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      <!-- This paragraph is a combination and paraphrase of two
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           quotes from the 1995 movie “The Usual Suspects”. -->
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      You know how it is.  You’ve heard of it happening.  The Man
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      comes and takes away your servers, your friends’ servers, the
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      servers of everybody in the same hosting facility. The servers
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      </para>
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    <refsect2 id="sniff">
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      <title>How about sniffing the network traffic and decrypting it
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      later by physically grabbing the Mandos client and using its
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      key?</title>
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      <para>
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        We only use <acronym>PFS</acronym> (Perfect Forward Security)
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        key exchange algorithms in TLS, which protects against this.
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      <title>Physically grabbing the Mandos server computer?</title>
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    <title>BUGS</title>
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  <refsect1 id="see_also">
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    <title>SEE ALSO</title>
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    <para>
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    <variablelist>
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      <varlistentry>
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        <term>
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          <ulink url="https://www.recompile.se/mandos">Mandos</ulink>
 
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          <ulink url="http://www.recompile.se/mandos">Mandos</ulink>
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        </term>
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        <listitem>
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          <para>