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NAME

6       ipsec - invoke IPsec utilities
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SYNOPSIS

9       ipsec command [argument...] ipsec --help
10             ipsec --version
11             ipsec --versioncode
12             ipsec --copyright
13             ipsec --directory
14             ipsec --confdir
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DESCRIPTION

17       Ipsec invokes any of several utilities involved in controlling the
18       IPsec encryption/authentication system, running the specified command
19       with the specified arguments as if it had been invoked directly. This
20       largely eliminates possible name collisions with other software, and
21       also permits some centralized services.
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23       In particular, ipsec supplies the invoked command with a suitable PATH
24       environment variable, and also provides IPSEC_DIR, IPSEC_CONFS, and
25       IPSEC_VERSION environment variables, containing respectively the full
26       pathname of the directory where the IPsec utilities are stored, the
27       full pathname of the directory where the configuration files live, and
28       the IPsec version number.
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30       ipsec --help lists the available commands. Most have their own manual
31       pages, e.g.  ipsec_auto(8) for auto.
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33       ipsec --version outputs version information about Linux FreeS/WAN. A
34       version code of the form ``Uxxx/Kyyy´´ indicates that the user-level
35       utilities are version xxx but the kernel portion appears to be version
36       yyy (this form is used only if the two disagree).
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38       ipsec --versioncode outputs just the version code, with none of
39       --version´s supporting information, for use by scripts.
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41       ipsec --copyright supplies boring copyright details.
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43       ipsec --directory reports where ipsec thinks the IPsec utilities are
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46       ipsec --confdir reports where ipsec thinks the IPsec configuration
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FILES

50       /usr/local/lib/ipsec usual utilities directory
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ENVIRONMENT

53       The following environment variables control where FreeS/WAN finds its
54       components. The ipsec command sets them if they are not already set.
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57           IPSEC_EXECDIR  directory containing published commands
58           IPSEC_LIBDIR   directory containing internal executables
59           IPSEC_SBINDIR  directory containing ipsec command
60           IPSEC_CONFS    directory containing configuration files
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SEE ALSO

64       ipsec.conf(5), ipsec.secrets(5), ipsec_auto(8), ipsec_barf(8),
65       ipsec_setup(8), ipsec_showdefaults(8), ipsec_showhostkey(8)
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67       HTML documentation shipped with the release, starting with
68       doc/index.html.  <http://www.freeswan.org/doc.html> may also be of use.
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HISTORY

71       Written for Linux FreeS/WAN <http://www.freeswan.org> by Henry Spencer.
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BUGS

74       The provision of centralized services, while convenient, does
75       compromise the original concept of making the utilities invocable
76       directly as well as via ipsec.
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