NAME¶
ipsec - invoke IPsec utilities
SYNOPSIS¶
ipsec
command [
argument...]
ipsec --help
ipsec --version
ipsec --versioncode
ipsec --copyright
ipsec --directory
ipsec --confdir
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 IPSEC_DIR, IPSEC_CONFS, and
IPSEC_VERSION environment variables, containing respectively the full pathname
of the directory where the IPsec utilities are stored, the full pathname of
the directory where the configuration files live, and the IPsec version
number.
ipsec --help lists the available commands. Most have their own manual
pages, e.g.
ipsec_auto(8) for
auto.
ipsec --version outputs version information about Linux FreeS/WAN. A
version code of the form ``U
xxx/K
yyy´´ indicates that
the user-level utilities are version
xxx but the kernel portion appears
to be version
yyy (this form is used only if the two disagree).
ipsec --versioncode outputs
just the version code, with none of
--version´s supporting information, for use by scripts.
ipsec --copyright supplies boring copyright details.
ipsec --directory reports where
ipsec thinks the IPsec utilities
are stored.
ipsec --confdir reports where
ipsec thinks the IPsec configuration
files are stored.
FILES¶
/usr/local/lib/ipsec usual utilities directory
ENVIRONMENT¶
The following environment variables control where FreeS/WAN finds its
components. The
ipsec command sets them if they are not already set.
IPSEC_EXECDIR directory containing published commands
IPSEC_LIBDIR directory containing internal executables
IPSEC_SBINDIR directory containing ipsec command
IPSEC_CONFS directory containing configuration files
SEE ALSO¶
ipsec.
conf(5), ipsec.
secrets(5),
ipsec_auto(8),
ipsec_barf(8),
ipsec_setup(8),
ipsec_showdefaults(8),
ipsec_showhostkey(8)
HTML documentation shipped with the release, starting with
doc/index.html.
<http://www.freeswan.org/doc.html > may also
be of use.
HISTORY¶
Written for Linux FreeS/WAN <
http://www.freeswan.org> 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.