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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2015-07-06 20:09:47 UTC
  • mto: This revision was merged to the branch mainline in revision 759.
  • Revision ID: teddy@recompile.se-20150706200947-w21u4eq74efgl6r5
Fix minor bugs and typos and add some more debug output.

* Makefile (install-client-nokey): Create plugin-helpers directory and
                                   the mandos-client-iprouteadddel
                                   helper program.
* initramfs-tools-hook (PLUGINHELPERDIR): Fix typo.
* plugins.d/mandos-client.c: Change terminology; routes are "deleted",
                             not "removed".  All occurences changed.
  (add_remove_local_route): Renamed to "add_delete_local_route".  All
                            callers changed.  Also pass "--debug" flag
                            to helper if in debug mode.
  (add_local_route): Add debugging output.
  (remove_local_route): Renamed to "delete_local_route".  All callers
                        changed.  Also pass "--debug" flag to helper
                        if in debug mode.
  (start_mandos_communication): Add debug output when adding route.

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<!DOCTYPE refentry PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
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        "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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<!ENTITY COMMANDNAME "mandos-client">
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2013-06-21">
 
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2015-06-29">
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<!ENTITY % common SYSTEM "../common.ent">
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%common;
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      <year>2008</year>
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      <year>2009</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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      <holder>Teddy Hogeborn</holder>
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      <holder>Björn Påhlsson</holder>
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    </copyright>
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            assumed to separate the address from the port number.
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          </para>
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          <para>
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            This option is normally only useful for testing and
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            debugging.
 
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            Normally, Zeroconf would be used to locate Mandos servers,
 
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            in which case this option would only be used when testing
 
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            and debugging.
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          </para>
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        </listitem>
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      </varlistentry>
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          <para>
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            <replaceable>NAME</replaceable> can be the string
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            <quote><literal>none</literal></quote>; this will make
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            <command>&COMMANDNAME;</command> not bring up
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            <emphasis>any</emphasis> interfaces specified
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            <emphasis>after</emphasis> this string.  This is not
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            recommended, and only meant for advanced users.
 
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            <command>&COMMANDNAME;</command> only bring up interfaces
 
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            specified <emphasis>before</emphasis> this string.  This
 
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            is not recommended, and only meant for advanced users.
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          </para>
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      </varlistentry>
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  <refsect1 id="environment">
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    <title>ENVIRONMENT</title>
 
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    <variablelist>
 
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        <term><envar>MANDOSPLUGINHELPERDIR</envar></term>
 
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            This environment variable will be assumed to contain the
 
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            directory containing any helper executables.  The use and
 
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      This program does not use any environment variables, not even
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      This program does not use any other environment variables, not
 
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      even the ones provided by <citerefentry><refentrytitle
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      >cryptsetup</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
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    </citerefentry>.
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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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      <emphasis>Note</emphasis>: This makes it completely insecure to