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Manpage of IPSEC
IPSEC
Section: Maintenance Commands (8)
Updated: 7 Nov 1999
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NAME
ipsec - invoke IPSEC utilities
SYNOPSIS
ipsec
command [ argument ...]
ipsec
--help
ipsec
--version
DESCRIPTION
Ipsec
invokes any of several utilities involved in controlling the IPSEC
encryption/authentication system,
running the specified
command
with the specified
arguments
as if it had been invoked directly.
This largely eliminates possible name collisions with other software,
and also permits some centralized services.
In particular,
ipsec
supplies the invoked
command
with a suitable PATH environment variable,
and also provides an IPSECDIR environment variable containing
the full pathname of the directory where the IPSEC utilities are stored.
ipsec --help
lists the available commands.
Most have their own manual pages, e.g.
ipsec_manual(8)
for
manual.
ipsec --version
supplies the version number of Linux FreeS/WAN,
and its copyright details.
FILES
/usr/local/lib/ipsec utilities directory (default location)
SEE ALSO
ipsec_manual(8), ipsec_auto(8),
ipsec_klipsdebug(8), ipsec_barf(8)
HISTORY
Written for the Linux FreeS/WAN project
<http://www.xs4all.nl/~freeswan/>
by Henry Spencer.
BUGS
The provision of centralized services,
while convenient,
does compromise the original concept of making the utilities
invocable directly as well as via
ipsec.
Index
- NAME
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- FILES
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- SEE ALSO
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- HISTORY
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- BUGS
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