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  • Committer: Teddy Hogeborn
  • Date: 2016-11-26 23:21:16 UTC
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        "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
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<!ENTITY CONFNAME "mandos-clients.conf">
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<!ENTITY CONFPATH "<filename>/etc/mandos/clients.conf</filename>">
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2011-10-10">
 
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<!ENTITY TIMESTAMP "2016-06-23">
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<!ENTITY % common SYSTEM "common.ent">
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%common;
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]>
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      <year>2009</year>
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      <year>2010</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>2014</year>
 
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      <year>2015</year>
 
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      <year>2016</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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      ><refentrytitle>mandos</refentrytitle>
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      <manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>, read by it at startup.
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      The file needs to list all clients that should be able to use
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      the service.  All clients listed will be regarded as enabled,
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      even if a client was disabled in a previous run of the server.
 
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      the service.  The settings in this file can be overridden by
 
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      runtime changes to the server, which it saves across restarts.
 
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      (See the section called <quote>PERSISTENT STATE</quote> in
 
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      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>mandos</refentrytitle><manvolnum
 
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      >8</manvolnum></citerefentry>.)  However, any <emphasis
 
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      >changes</emphasis> to this file (including adding and removing
 
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      clients) will, at startup, override changes done during runtime.
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    </para>
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    <para>
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      The format starts with a <literal>[<replaceable>section
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          <para>
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            How long to wait for external approval before resorting to
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            use the <option>approved_by_default</option> value.  The
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            default is <quote>0s</quote>, i.e. not to wait.
 
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            default is <quote>PT0S</quote>, i.e. not to wait.
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          </para>
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          <para>
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            The format of <replaceable>TIME</replaceable> is the same
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            This option is <emphasis>optional</emphasis>.
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          </para>
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          <para>
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            This option allows you to override the default shell
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            command that the server will use to check if the client is
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            still up.  Any output of the command will be ignored, only
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            the exit code is checked:  If the exit code of the command
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            is zero, the client is considered up.  The command will be
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            run using <quote><command><filename>/bin/sh</filename>
 
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            This option overrides the default shell command that the
 
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            server will use to check if the client is still up.  Any
 
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            output of the command will be ignored, only the exit code
 
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            is checked:  If the exit code of the command is zero, the
 
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            client is considered up.  The command will be run using
 
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            <quote><command><filename>/bin/sh</filename>
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            <option>-c</option></command></quote>, so
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            <varname>PATH</varname> will be searched.  The default
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            value for the checker command is <quote><literal
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            ><command>fping</command> <option>-q</option> <option
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            >--</option> %%(host)s</literal></quote>.
 
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            >--</option> %%(host)s</literal></quote>.  Note that
 
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            <command>mandos-keygen</command>, when generating output
 
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            to be inserted into this file, normally looks for an SSH
 
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            server on the Mandos client, and, if it find one, outputs
 
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            a <option>checker</option> option to check for the
 
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            client’s key fingerprint – this is more secure against
 
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            spoofing.
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          </para>
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          <para>
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            In addition to normal start time expansion, this option
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          <para>
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            This option sets the OpenPGP fingerprint that identifies
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            the public key that clients authenticate themselves with
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            through TLS.  The string needs to be in hexidecimal form,
 
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            through TLS.  The string needs to be in hexadecimal form,
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            but spaces or upper/lower case are not significant.
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          </para>
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        </listitem>
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            <option>extended_timeout</option> option.
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            The <replaceable>TIME</replaceable> is specified as a
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            space-separated number of values, each of which is a
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            number and a one-character suffix.  The suffix must be one
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            of <quote>d</quote>, <quote>s</quote>, <quote>m</quote>,
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            <quote>h</quote>, and <quote>w</quote> for days, seconds,
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            minutes, hours, and weeks, respectively.  The values are
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            added together to give the total time value, so all of
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            <quote><literal>110s 110s 110s</literal></quote>, and
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            <quote><literal>5m 30s</literal></quote> will give a value
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            of five minutes and thirty seconds.
 
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            The <replaceable>TIME</replaceable> is specified as an RFC
 
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            3339 duration; for example
 
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            <quote><literal>P1Y2M3DT4H5M6S</literal></quote> meaning
 
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            one year, two months, three days, four hours, five
 
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            minutes, and six seconds.  Some values can be omitted, see
 
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            RFC 3339 Appendix A for details.
 
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        <term><option>enabled<literal> = </literal>{ <literal
 
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        >1</literal> | <literal>yes</literal> | <literal>true</literal
 
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        >off</literal> }</option></term>
 
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            Whether this client should be enabled by default.  The
 
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        <quote><literal>approval_duration</literal></quote>,
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  <refsect1 id="example">
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checker = fping -q -- %%(host)s
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fingerprint = 3e393aeaefb84c7e89e2f547b3a107558fca3a27
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secfile = /etc/mandos/bar-secret
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