1IPSEC(8)                    System Manager's Manual                   IPSEC(8)
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NAME

6       ipsec - invoke IPsec utilities
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SYNOPSIS

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

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

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

55       The  following  environment variables control where FreeS/WAN finds its
56       components.  The ipsec command sets them if they are not already set.
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

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

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

73       The provision of centralized services, while convenient,  does  compro‐
74       mise the original concept of making the utilities invocable directly as
75       well as via ipsec.
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