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authorLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2003-10-16 19:59:54 +0000
committerLennart Poettering <lennart@poettering.net>2003-10-16 19:59:54 +0000
commitc4db3c56f3feb04592eeeb14ccda71fb92cc05a3 (patch)
tree4c820a310e3fd4df961bf158e46591cc07776eee /man
parent06ba2a37d32475c4aa00f4153515716104ee43f1 (diff)
documentation finished
git-svn-id: file:///home/lennart/svn/public/aeswepd/trunk@27 022f378f-78c4-0310-b860-d162c87e6274
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-rw-r--r--man/aeswepd.8.xml.in21
1 files changed, 11 insertions, 10 deletions
diff --git a/man/aeswepd.8.xml.in b/man/aeswepd.8.xml.in
index 0677219..d666da9 100644
--- a/man/aeswepd.8.xml.in
+++ b/man/aeswepd.8.xml.in
@@ -29,12 +29,12 @@
<cmd>aeswepls [<arg>options</arg>]</cmd>
</synopsis>
- <description>
- <p>aeswepd is UNIX daemon for changing WEP keys of WLAN devices
- in constant intervals. The WEP keys are calculated by encrypting
- the current UNIX time using the AES cypher with a given constant
- key. aeswepd is intended to increase the security of the
- hardware based, standards compliant WEP technology. </p>
+ <description>
+ <p>aeswepd is UNIX daemon for changing WEP keys of WLAN devices
+ in constant intervals. The WEP keys are calculated by encrypting
+ the current UNIX time using the AES cypher with a given constant
+ key. aeswepd strengthens the security of the weak hardware
+ based, standards compliant WEP technology.</p>
<p>aeswepd may use up to three hardware WEP keys: the first is
set to the current, the second to the previous and the third to
@@ -84,7 +84,8 @@
<option>
<p><opt>-t | --rekey-time=</opt><arg>SEC</arg></p>
- <optdesc><p>Specify the rekeying interval in seconds.</p></optdesc>
+ <optdesc><p>Specify the rekeying interval in seconds. (default:
+ 900, that is 15 minutes)</p></optdesc>
</option>
<option>
@@ -93,7 +94,7 @@
</option>
<option>
- <p><opt>-E | --keye-env=</opt><arg>ENV</arg></p>
+ <p><opt>-E | --key-env=</opt><arg>ENV</arg></p>
<optdesc><p>Specify an environment variable to read the AES key to use from.</p></optdesc>
</option>
@@ -146,12 +147,12 @@
</options>
<section name="Files">
- <p><file>/var/run/aeswepd.&lt;aeswepdgt;.pid</file>: the pid file
+ <p><file>/var/run/aeswepd.&lt;interface&gt;.pid</file>: the pid file
for aeswepd.</p>
</section>
<section name="Signals">
- <p><arg>SIGINT, SIGTERM, SIGTQUIT</arg> aeswepd will quit. This is issued by passing -k to aeswepd.</p>
+ <p><arg>SIGINT, SIGTERM, SIGQUIT</arg> aeswepd will quit. This is issued by passing -k to aeswepd.</p>
<p><arg>SIGHUP</arg> aeswepd will rekey immediately.</p>
</section>