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    <title>Mandos Manual</title>
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    <productname>Mandos</productname>
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    <productnumber>&version;</productnumber>
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      <author>
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	<firstname>Björn</firstname>
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	<surname>Påhlsson</surname>
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	<address>
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	  <email>belorn@recompile.se</email>
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	</address>
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      </author>
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      <author>
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	<firstname>Teddy</firstname>
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	<surname>Hogeborn</surname>
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	<address>
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	</address>
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    <copyright>
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      <year>2008</year>
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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>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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    <refentrytitle>&COMMANDNAME;</refentrytitle>
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    <manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum>
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    <refname><command>&COMMANDNAME;</command></refname>
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    <refpurpose>Mandos plugin to use usplash to get a
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    password.</refpurpose>
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  </refnamediv>
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  <refsynopsisdiv>
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    <cmdsynopsis>
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      <command>&COMMANDNAME;</command>
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    </cmdsynopsis>
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  </refsynopsisdiv>
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  <refsect1 id="description">
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    <title>DESCRIPTION</title>
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    <para>
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      This program prompts for a password using <citerefentry>
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      <refentrytitle>usplash</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
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      </citerefentry> and outputs any given password to standard
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      output.  If no <citerefentry><refentrytitle
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      >usplash</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry>
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      process can be found, this program will immediately exit with an
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      exit code indicating failure.
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    </para>
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    <para>
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      This program is not very useful on its own.  This program is
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      really meant to run as a plugin in the <application
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      >Mandos</application> client-side system, where it is used as a
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      fallback and alternative to retrieving passwords from a
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      <application >Mandos</application> server.
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    </para>
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    <para>
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      If this program is killed (presumably by
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      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>plugin-runner</refentrytitle>
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      <manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum></citerefentry> because some other
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      plugin provided the password), it cannot tell <citerefentry>
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      <refentrytitle>usplash</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
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      </citerefentry> to abort requesting a password, because
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      <citerefentry><refentrytitle>usplash</refentrytitle>
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      <manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry> does not support this.
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      Therefore, this program will then <emphasis>kill</emphasis> the
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      running <citerefentry><refentrytitle>usplash</refentrytitle>
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      <manvolnum>8</manvolnum></citerefentry> process and start a
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      <emphasis>new</emphasis> one using the same command line
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      arguments as the old one was using.
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    </para>
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  <refsect1 id="options">
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    <title>OPTIONS</title>
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    <para>
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      This program takes no options.
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    </para>
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  <refsect1 id="exit_status">
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    <title>EXIT STATUS</title>
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    <para>
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      If exit status is 0, the output from the program is the password
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      as it was read.  Otherwise, if exit status is other than 0, the
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      program was interrupted or encountered an error, and any output
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      so far could be corrupt and/or truncated, and should therefore
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      be ignored.
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    </para>
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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>cryptsource</envar></term>
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	<term><envar>crypttarget</envar></term>
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	  <para>
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	    If set, these environment variables will be assumed to
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	    contain the source device name and the target device
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	    mapper name, respectively, and will be shown as part of
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	    the prompt.
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	</para>
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	<para>
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	  These variables will normally be inherited from
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	  <citerefentry><refentrytitle>plugin-runner</refentrytitle>
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	  <manvolnum>8mandos</manvolnum></citerefentry>, which will
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	  normally have inherited them from
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	  <filename>/scripts/local-top/cryptroot</filename> in the
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	  initial <acronym>RAM</acronym> disk environment, which will
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	  have set them from parsing kernel arguments and
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	  <filename>/conf/conf.d/cryptroot</filename> (also in the
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	  initial RAM disk environment), which in turn will have been
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	  created when the initial RAM disk image was created by
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	  <filename
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	  >/usr/share/initramfs-tools/hooks/cryptroot</filename>, by
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	  extracting the information of the root file system from
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	  <filename >/etc/crypttab</filename>.
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	</para>
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	<para>
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	  This behavior is meant to exactly mirror the behavior of
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	  <command>askpass</command>, the default password prompter.
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    <title>FILES</title>
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	<term><filename>/dev/.initramfs/usplash_fifo</filename></term>
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	    This is the <acronym>FIFO</acronym> to where this program
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	    will write the commands for <citerefentry><refentrytitle
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	    >usplash</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
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	    </citerefentry>.  See <citerefentry><refentrytitle
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	    >fifo</refentrytitle><manvolnum>7</manvolnum>
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	    </citerefentry>.
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	<term><filename>/dev/.initramfs/usplash_outfifo</filename></term>
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	  <para>
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	    This is the <acronym>FIFO</acronym> where this program
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	    will read the password from <citerefentry><refentrytitle
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	    >usplash</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
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	    </citerefentry>.  See <citerefentry><refentrytitle
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	    >usplash</refentrytitle><manvolnum>8</manvolnum>
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	    In all those directories, the <filename>exe</filename> and
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	    <filename>cmdline</filename> entries will be used to
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	    determine the name of the running binary, effective user
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	    and group <abbrev>ID</abbrev>, and the command line
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	    arguments.  See <citerefentry><refentrytitle
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	    This is the name of the binary which will be searched for
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	    in the process list.  See <citerefentry><refentrytitle
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    <title>BUGS</title>
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      password request.
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      <abbrev>ID</abbrev> was freed and then taken up by another
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      process; the wrong process would then be killed.  Now, this
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