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.
-F, --foreground
Run the daemon in the foreground.
-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.
--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.
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) 2007-2010 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.
SEE ALSO
munge(1), remunge(1), unmunge(1), munge(3), munge_ctx(3),
munge_enum(3), munge(7).
http://home.gna.org/munge/