Ubuntu Manpage: mandos-keygen - Generate key and password for Mandos client and server.

Provided by: mandos-client_1.8.14-1_amd64

NAME

       mandos-keygen - Generate key and password for Mandos client and server.

SYNOPSIS


       mandos-keygen [--dir DIRECTORY | -d DIRECTORY]
                     [--type KEYTYPE | -t KEYTYPE]
                     [--length BITS | -l BITS]
                     [--subtype KEYTYPE | -s KEYTYPE]
                     [--sublength BITS | -L BITS]
                     [--name NAME | -n NAME]
                     [--email ADDRESS | -e ADDRESS]
                     [--comment TEXT | -c TEXT]
                     [--expire TIME | -x TIME]
                     [--tls-keytype KEYTYPE | -T KEYTYPE]
                     [--force | -f]

       mandos-keygen {--password | -p | --passfile FILE | -F FILE}
                     [--dir DIRECTORY | -d DIRECTORY]
                     [--name NAME | -n NAME] [--no-ssh | -S]

       mandos-keygen {--help | -h}

       mandos-keygen {--version | -v}

DESCRIPTION

       mandos-keygen is a program to generate the TLS and OpenPGP keys used by mandos-client(8mandos). The keys
       are normally written to /etc/keys/mandos for later installation into the initrd image, but this, and most
       other things, can be changed with command line options.

       This program can also be used with the --password or --passfile options to generate a ready-made section
       for clients.conf (see mandos-clients.conf(5)).

PURPOSE

       The purpose of this is to enable remote and unattended rebooting of client host computer with an
       encrypted root file system. See the section called “OVERVIEW” for details.

OPTIONS

--help, -h
Show a help message and exit

--dir DIRECTORY, -d DIRECTORY
Target directory for key files. Default is /etc/keys/mandos.

--type TYPE, -t TYPE
OpenPGP key type. Default is “RSA”.

--length BITS, -l BITS
OpenPGP key length in bits. Default is 4096.

--subtype KEYTYPE, -s KEYTYPE
OpenPGP subkey type. Default is “RSA”

--sublength BITS, -L BITS
OpenPGP subkey length in bits. Default is 4096.

--email ADDRESS, -e ADDRESS
Email address of key. Default is empty.

--comment TEXT, -c TEXT
Comment field for key. Default is empty.

--expire TIME, -x TIME
Key expire time. Default is no expiration. See gpg(1) for syntax.

--tls-keytype KEYTYPE, -T KEYTYPE
TLS key type. Default is “ed25519”

--force, -f
Force overwriting old key.

--password, -p
Prompt for a password and encrypt it with the key already present in either /etc/keys/mandos or the
directory specified with the --dir option. Outputs, on standard output, a section suitable for
inclusion in mandos-clients.conf(8). The host name or the name specified with the --name option is
used for the section header. All other options are ignored, and no key is created. Note: white space
is stripped from the beginning and from the end of the password; See the section called “BUGS”.

--passfile FILE, -F FILE
The same as --password, but read from FILE, not the terminal, and white space is not stripped from
the password in any way.

--no-ssh, -S
When --password or --passfile is given, this option will prevent mandos-keygen from calling
ssh-keyscan to get an SSH fingerprint for this host and, if successful, output suitable config
options to use this fingerprint as a checker option in the output. This is otherwise the default
behavior.

OVERVIEW

       This is part of the Mandos system for allowing computers to have encrypted root file systems and at the
       same time be capable of remote and/or unattended reboots. The computers run a small client program in the
       initial RAM disk environment which will communicate with a server over a network. All network
       communication is encrypted using TLS. The clients are identified by the server using a TLS key; each
       client has one unique to it. The server sends the clients an encrypted password. The encrypted password
       is decrypted by the clients using a separate OpenPGP key, and the password is then used to unlock the
       root file system, whereupon the computers can continue booting normally.

       This program is a small utility to generate new TLS and OpenPGP keys for new Mandos clients, and to
       generate sections for inclusion in clients.conf on the server.

EXIT STATUS

       The exit status will be 0 if a new key (or password, if the --password option was used) was successfully
       created, otherwise not.

ENVIRONMENT

       TMPDIR
           If set, temporary files will be created here. See mktemp(1).

FILES

       Use the --dir option to change where mandos-keygen will write the key files. The default file names are
       shown here.

       /etc/keys/mandos/seckey.txt
           OpenPGP secret key file which will be created or overwritten.

       /etc/keys/mandos/pubkey.txt
           OpenPGP public key file which will be created or overwritten.

       /etc/keys/mandos/tls-privkey.pem
           Private key file which will be created or overwritten.

       /etc/keys/mandos/tls-pubkey.pem
           Public key file which will be created or overwritten.

       /tmp
           Temporary files will be written here if TMPDIR is not set.

BUGS

       The --password/-p option strips white space from the start and from the end of the password before using
       it. If this is a problem, use the --passfile option instead, which does not do this.

       Please report bugs to the Mandos development mailing list: <mandos-dev@recompile.se> (subscription
       required). Note that this list is public. The developers can be reached privately at
       <mandos@recompile.se> (OpenPGP key fingerprint 153A 37F1 0BBA 0435 987F 2C4A 7223 2973 CA34 C2C4 for
       encrypted mail).

EXAMPLE

       Normal invocation needs no options:

       mandos-keygen

       Create key in another directory and of another type. Force overwriting old key files:

       mandos-keygen --dir ~/keydir --type RSA --force

       Prompt for a password, encrypt it with the keys in /etc/keys/mandos and output a section suitable for
       clients.conf.

       mandos-keygen --password

       Prompt for a password, encrypt it with the keys in the client-key directory and output a section suitable
       for clients.conf.

       mandos-keygen --password --dir client-key

SECURITY

       The --type, --length, --subtype, and --sublength options can be used to create keys of low security. If
       in doubt, leave them to the default values.

       The key expire time is not guaranteed to be honored by mandos(8).

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright © 2008-2019 Teddy Hogeborn, Björn Påhlsson

       This manual page is part of Mandos.

       Mandos is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General
       Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your
       option) any later version.

       Mandos is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the
       implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public
       License for more details.

       You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with Mandos. If not, see
       http://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

Mandos 1.8.14                                      2019-07-18                                   MANDOS-KEYGEN(8)