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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2015-07-09 20:32:52 UTC
  • Revision ID: teddy@recompile.se-20150709203252-u10p7trfsxc1a9yp
Install client Diffie-Hellman parameters into initramfs.

* debian/control (Package: mandos-client/Recommends): Added
  "gnutls-bin | openssl" (to generate DH parameters).
* debian/mandos-client.postinst (create_dh_params): New function
                                                    called on package
                                                    configure.
* plugins.d/mandos-client.c (main): Bug fix: Work around Debian bug
                                    #633582 also for the
                                    "client-dhparams.pem" file.

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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 "plugin-runner">
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2023-04-30">
 
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2015-06-28">
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<!ENTITY % common SYSTEM "common.ent">
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%common;
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    <copyright>
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      <year>2008</year>
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      <year>2009</year>
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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>2015</year>
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      <year>2016</year>
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      <year>2017</year>
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      <year>2018</year>
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      <year>2019</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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    <title>PLUGINS</title>
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    <para>
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      This program will get a password by running a number of
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      <firstterm>plugins</firstterm>, which are executable programs in
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      a directory in the initial <acronym>RAM</acronym> disk
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      environment.  The default directory is
 
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      <firstterm>plugins</firstterm>, which are simply executable
 
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      programs in a directory in the initial <acronym>RAM</acronym>
 
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      disk environment.  The default directory is
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      <filename>/lib/mandos/plugins.d</filename>, but this can be
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      changed with the <option>--plugin-dir</option> option.  The
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      plugins are started in parallel, and the first plugin to output
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    <refsect2 id="writing_plugins">
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      <title>WRITING PLUGINS</title>
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        A plugin is an executable program which prints a password to
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        its standard output and then exits with a successful (zero)
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        exit status.  If the exit status is not zero, any output on
 
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        A plugin is simply a program which prints a password to its
 
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        standard output and then exits with a successful (zero) exit
 
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        status.  If the exit status is not zero, any output on
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        standard output will be ignored by the plugin runner.  Any
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        output on its standard error channel will simply be passed to
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        the standard error of the plugin runner, usually the system
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            </para>
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          </listitem>
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        </varlistentry>
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          <term><filename class="directory"
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          >/lib/mandos/plugins.d</filename></term>
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              The default plugin directory; can be changed by the
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              <option>--plugin-dir</option> option.
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          <term><filename class="directory"
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              The default plugin helper directory; can be changed by
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  <refsect1 id="examples">
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      <para>
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        Read a different configuration file, run plugins from a
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        different directory, specify an alternate plugin helper
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        directory and add two options to the
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        <citerefentry><refentrytitle >mandos-client</refentrytitle>
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        <manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum></citerefentry> plugin:
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      </para>
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      <para>
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<!-- do not wrap this line -->
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<userinput>cd /etc/keys/mandos; &COMMANDNAME;  --config-file=/etc/mandos/plugin-runner.conf --plugin-dir /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/mandos/plugins.d --plugin-helper-dir /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/mandos/plugin-helpers --options-for=mandos-client:--pubkey=pubkey.txt,&#x200b;--seckey=seckey.txt,&#x200b;--tls-pubkey=tls-pubkey.pem,&#x200b;--tls-privkey=tls-privkey.pem</userinput>
 
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<userinput>cd /etc/keys/mandos; &COMMANDNAME;  --config-file=/etc/mandos/plugin-runner.conf --plugin-dir /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/mandos/plugins.d --plugin-helper-dir /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/mandos/plugin-helpers --options-for=mandos-client:--pubkey=pubkey.txt,--seckey=seckey.txt</userinput>
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    </informalexample>