Ubuntu Manpage: munged - MUNGE daemon

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NAME

       munged - MUNGE daemon

SYNOPSIS

       munged [OPTION]...

DESCRIPTION

       The  munged  daemon  is  responsible  for authenticating local MUNGE clients and servicing
       their credential encode & decode requests.  All munged daemons  within  a  security  realm
       share a secret key.  This key is used to protect the contents of a credential.

       When a credential is created, munged embeds metadata within it including the effective UID
       and GID of the requesting client (as determined  by  munged)  and  the  current  time  (as
       determined  by  the  local  clock).   It  then  compresses  the  data,  computes a message
       authentication code, encrypts the data, and base64-encodes the result before returning the
       credential to the client.

       When  a  credential  is  validated, munged first checks the message authentication code to
       ensure the credential has not been subsequently altered.  Next,  it  checks  the  embedded
       UID/GID  restrictions  to determine whether the requesting client is allowed to decode it.
       Then, it checks the embedded encode time against the  current  time;  if  this  difference
       exceeds the embedded time-to-live, the credential has expired.  Finally, it checks whether
       this credential has been previously decoded on this host; if so, the credential  has  been
       replayed.   If  all  checks  pass, the credential metadata and payload are returned to the
       client.

OPTIONS

-h, --help
Display a summary of the command-line options.

-L, --license
Display license information.

-V, --version
Display version information.

-f, --force
Force the daemon to run if at all possible. This overrides warnings for an
existing local domain socket, a lack of entropy for the PRNG, and insecure
file/directory permissions. Use with caution as overriding these warnings can
affect security.

-F, --foreground
Run the daemon in the foreground.

-M, --mlockall
Lock all current and future pages in the virtual memory address space. Access to
locked pages will never be delayed by a page fault. This can improve performance
and help the daemon remain responsive when the system is under heavy memory
pressure. This typically requires root privileges or the CAP_IPC_LOCK capability.

-S, --socket path
Specify the local domain socket for communicating with clients.

--auth-server-dir directory
Specify an alternate directory in which the daemon will create the pipe used to
authenticate clients. The recommended permissions for this directory are 0711.
This option is only valid on platforms where client authentication is performed via
a file-descriptor passing mechanism.

--auth-client-dir directory
Specify an alternate directory in which clients will create the file used to
authenticate themselves to the daemon. The recommended permissions for this
directory are 1733. This option is only valid on platforms where client
authentication is performed via a file-descriptor passing mechanism.

--benchmark
Disable recurring timers in order to reduce some noise while benchmarking. This
affects the PRNG entropy pool, supplementary group mapping, and credential replay
hash. Do not enable this option when running in production.

--group-check-mtime boolean
Specify whether the modification time of /etc/group should be checked before
updating the supplementary group membership mapping. If this value is non-zero,
the check will be enabled and the mapping will not be updated unless the file has
been modified since the last update.

--group-update-time integer
Specify the number of seconds between updates to the supplementary group membership
mapping; this mapping is used when restricting credentials by GID. A value of 0
causes it to be computed initially but never updated (unless triggered by a
SIGHUP). A value of -1 causes it to be disabled.

--key-file file
Specify an alternate secret key file.

--num-threads integer
Specify the number of threads to spawn for processing credential requests.

--syslog
Redirect log messages to syslog when the daemon is running in the background.

SIGNALS

       SIGHUP Immediately update the supplementary group membership mapping  instead  of  waiting
              for the next scheduled update; this mapping is used when restricting credentials by
              GID.

       SIGTERM
              Terminate the daemon.

NOTES

       All clocks within a security realm must be kept in sync within the credential time-to-live
       setting.

       While munged prevents a given credential from being decoded on a particular host more than
       once, nothing prevents a credential from  being  decoded  on  multiple  hosts  within  the
       security realm before it expires.

AUTHOR

       Chris Dunlap <cdunlap@llnl.gov>

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (C) 2007-2013 Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC.
       Copyright (C) 2002-2007 The Regents of the University of California.

       MUNGE  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.

       Additionally  for  the  MUNGE library (libmunge), you can redistribute it and/or modify it
       under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software
       Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.