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<refentry xmlns:xi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XInclude">
<refentryinfo>
<title>Mandos Manual</title>
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<productname>Mandos</productname>
<productnumber>&version;</productnumber>
<date>&TIMESTAMP;</date>
<authorgroup>
<author>
<firstname>Björn</firstname>
<surname>Påhlsson</surname>
<address>
<email>belorn@recompile.se</email>
</address>
</author>
<author>
<firstname>Teddy</firstname>
<surname>Hogeborn</surname>
<address>
<email>teddy@recompile.se</email>
</address>
</author>
</authorgroup>
<copyright>
<year>2010</year>
<year>2011</year>
<year>2012</year>
<year>2013</year>
<year>2014</year>
<year>2015</year>
<year>2016</year>
<year>2017</year>
<year>2018</year>
<year>2019</year>
<holder>Teddy Hogeborn</holder>
<holder>Björn Påhlsson</holder>
</copyright>
<xi:include href="../legalnotice.xml"/>
</refentryinfo>
<refmeta>
<refentrytitle>&COMMANDNAME;</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum>
</refmeta>
<refnamediv>
<refname><command>&COMMANDNAME;</command></refname>
<refpurpose>Mandos plugin to use plymouth to get a
password.</refpurpose>
</refnamediv>
<refsynopsisdiv>
<cmdsynopsis>
<command>&COMMANDNAME;</command>
<arg choice="opt">
<option>--prompt <replaceable>PROMPT</replaceable></option>
</arg>
<arg><option>--debug</option></arg>
</cmdsynopsis>
<cmdsynopsis>
<command>&COMMANDNAME;</command>
<group choice="req">
<arg choice="plain"><option>--help</option></arg>
<arg choice="plain"><option>-?</option></arg>
</group>
</cmdsynopsis>
<cmdsynopsis>
<command>&COMMANDNAME;</command>
<arg choice="plain"><option>--usage</option></arg>
</cmdsynopsis>
<cmdsynopsis>
<command>&COMMANDNAME;</command>
<group choice="req">
<arg choice="plain"><option>--version</option></arg>
<arg choice="plain"><option>-V</option></arg>
</group>
</cmdsynopsis>
</refsynopsisdiv>
<refsect1 id="description">
<title>DESCRIPTION</title>
<para>
This program prompts for a password using <citerefentry>
<refentrytitle>plymouth</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
</citerefentry> and outputs any given password to standard
output. If no <citerefentry><refentrytitle
>plymouth</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
process can be found, this program will immediately exit with an
exit code indicating failure.
</para>
<para>
This program is not very useful on its own. This program is
really meant to run as a plugin in the <application
>Mandos</application> client-side system, where it is used as a
fallback and alternative to retrieving passwords from a
<application >Mandos</application> server.
</para>
<para>
If this program is killed (presumably by
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>plugin-runner</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum></citerefentry> because some other
plugin provided the password), it cannot tell <citerefentry>
<refentrytitle>plymouth</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
</citerefentry> to abort requesting a password, because
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>plymouth</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry> does not support this.
Therefore, this program will then <emphasis>kill</emphasis> the
running <citerefentry><refentrytitle>plymouth</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry> process and start a
<emphasis>new</emphasis> one using the same command line
arguments as the old one was using.
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 id="options">
<title>OPTIONS</title>
<para>
This program is commonly not invoked from the command line; it
is normally started by the <application>Mandos</application>
plugin runner, see <citerefentry><refentrytitle
>plugin-runner</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum>
</citerefentry>. Any command line options this program accepts
are therefore normally provided by the plugin runner, and not
directly.
</para>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--prompt=<replaceable
>PROMPT</replaceable></option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
The password prompt. Note that using this option will
make this program ignore the <envar>cryptsource</envar>
and <envar>crypttarget</envar> environment variables.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--debug</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Enable debug mode. This will enable a lot of output to
standard error about what the program is doing. The
program will still perform all other functions normally.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--help</option></term>
<term><option>-?</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Gives a help message about options and their meanings.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--usage</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Gives a short usage message.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><option>--version</option></term>
<term><option>-V</option></term>
<listitem>
<para>
Prints the program version.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 id="exit_status">
<title>EXIT STATUS</title>
<para>
If exit status is 0, the output from the program is the password
as it was read. Otherwise, if exit status is other than 0, the
program was interrupted or encountered an error, and any output
so far could be corrupt and/or truncated, and should therefore
be ignored.
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 id="environment">
<title>ENVIRONMENT</title>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><envar>cryptsource</envar></term>
<term><envar>crypttarget</envar></term>
<listitem>
<para>
If set, and if the <option>--prompt</option> option is not
used, these environment variables will be assumed to
contain the source device name and the target device
mapper name, respectively, and will be shown as part of
the prompt.
</para>
<para>
These variables will normally be inherited from
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>plugin-runner</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum></citerefentry>, which might
have in turn inherited them from its calling process.
</para>
<para>
This behavior is meant to exactly mirror the behavior of
<command>askpass</command>, the default password prompter
from initramfs-tools.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 id="files">
<title>FILES</title>
<variablelist>
<varlistentry>
<term><filename>/bin/plymouth</filename></term>
<listitem>
<para>
This is the command run to retrieve a password from
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>plymouth</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><filename class="directory">/proc</filename></term>
<listitem>
<para>
To find the running <citerefentry><refentrytitle
>plymouth</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
</citerefentry>, this directory will be searched for
numeric entries which will be assumed to be directories.
In all those directories, the <filename>exe</filename> and
<filename>cmdline</filename> entries will be used to
determine the name of the running binary, effective user
and group <abbrev>ID</abbrev>, and the command line
arguments. See <citerefentry><refentrytitle
>proc</refentrytitle><manvolnum>5</manvolnum>
</citerefentry>.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
<varlistentry>
<term><filename>/sbin/plymouthd</filename></term>
<listitem>
<para>
This is the name of the binary which will be searched for
in the process list. See <citerefentry><refentrytitle
>plymouth</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
</citerefentry>.
</para>
</listitem>
</varlistentry>
</variablelist>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 id="bugs">
<title>BUGS</title>
<para>
Killing the <citerefentry><refentrytitle
>plymouth</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
daemon and starting a new one is ugly, but necessary as long as
it does not support aborting a password request.
</para>
<xi:include href="../bugs.xml"/>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 id="example">
<title>EXAMPLE</title>
<para>
Note that normally, this program will not be invoked directly,
but instead started by the Mandos <citerefentry><refentrytitle
>plugin-runner</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum>
</citerefentry>.
</para>
<informalexample>
<para>
Normal invocation needs no options:
</para>
<para>
<userinput>&COMMANDNAME;</userinput>
</para>
</informalexample>
<informalexample>
<para>
Show a different prompt.
</para>
<para>
<userinput>&COMMANDNAME; --prompt=Password</userinput>
</para>
</informalexample>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 id="security">
<title>SECURITY</title>
<para>
If this program is killed by a signal, it will kill the process
<abbrev>ID</abbrev> which at the start of this program was
determined to run <citerefentry><refentrytitle
>plymouth</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
as root (see also <xref linkend="files"/>). There is a very
slight risk that, in the time between those events, that process
<abbrev>ID</abbrev> was freed and then taken up by another
process; the wrong process would then be killed. Now, this
program can only be killed by the user who started it; see
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>plugin-runner</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum></citerefentry>. This program
should therefore be started by a completely separate
non-privileged user, and no other programs should be allowed to
run as that special user. This means that it is not recommended
to use the user "nobody" to start this program, as other
possibly less trusted programs could be running as "nobody", and
they would then be able to kill this program, triggering the
killing of the process <abbrev>ID</abbrev> which may or may not
be <citerefentry><refentrytitle>plymouth</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>.
</para>
<para>
The only other thing that could be considered worthy of note is
this: This program is meant to be run by <citerefentry>
<refentrytitle>plugin-runner</refentrytitle><manvolnum
>8mandos</manvolnum></citerefentry>, and will, when run
standalone, outside, in a normal environment, immediately output
on its standard output any presumably secret password it just
received. Therefore, when running this program standalone
(which should never normally be done), take care not to type in
any real secret password by force of habit, since it would then
immediately be shown as output.
</para>
</refsect1>
<refsect1 id="see_also">
<title>SEE ALSO</title>
<para>
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>intro</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>plugin-runner</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>proc</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>5</manvolnum></citerefentry>,
<citerefentry><refentrytitle>plymouth</refentrytitle>
<manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
</para>
</refsect1>
</refentry>
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