X-Git-Url: https://git.gag.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=man%2Fxml-source%2Famcrypt.8.xml;h=83e2c1ca7d577f95675c046d2e7594aa75d4ca5a;hb=9b5cad4e0a168522f22bf66d35b28aaeb1cc93e0;hp=8a12db1974324266a52ebb734d2da7781ef4009c;hpb=1194fb66aa28d9929c3f2bef3cc6c1c3f40a60a4;p=debian%2Famanda diff --git a/man/xml-source/amcrypt.8.xml b/man/xml-source/amcrypt.8.xml old mode 100755 new mode 100644 index 8a12db1..83e2c1c --- a/man/xml-source/amcrypt.8.xml +++ b/man/xml-source/amcrypt.8.xml @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd" [ - + %global_entities; ]> @@ -11,11 +11,17 @@ amcrypt 8 +&rmi.source; +&rmi.version; +&rmi.manual.8; amcrypt -reference crypt program for &A; symmetric data encryption +reference crypt program for Amanda symmetric data encryption + +&author.ktill; + @@ -26,21 +32,22 @@ DESCRIPTION &amcrypt; -requires aespipe and aespipe, uuencode and gpg to work. Aespipe is available from &amcrypt; will search for the aespipe program in the following directories: /usr/bin:/usr/local/bin:/sbin:/usr/sbin. -&amcrypt; calls &amaespipe; and pass the +&amcrypt; calls &amaespipe; and pass the passphrase through file descriptor 3. -The passphrase should be stored in ~amanda/.am_passphrase. +The passphrase should be stored in ~amanda/.am_passphrase. How to create encryption keys for amcrypt -1. Create 65 random encryption keys and encrypt those keys using gpg. Reading +1. Create 65 random encryption keys and encrypt those keys using gpg. Reading from /dev/random may take indefinitely long if kernel's random entropy pool is empty. If that happens, do some other work on some other console (use -keyboard, mouse and disks). +keyboard, mouse and disks). head -c 2925 /dev/random | uuencode -m - | head -n 66 | tail -n 65 \ | gpg --symmetric -a > ~amanda/.gnupg/am_key.gpg @@ -59,18 +66,17 @@ chmod 700 ~amanda/.am_passphrase Key and Passphrase &amcrypt; uses the same key to encrypt and decrypt data. -It is very important to store and protect the key and the passphrase +It is very important to store and protect the key and the passphrase properly. Encrypted backup data can only be recovered with the correct key and -passphrase. +passphrase. -SEE ALSO -amanda8, -amanda.conf5, -aespipe1, -amaespipe8, -gpg1 - - + +, +, +, + + +