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NAME

       ipsec_auto - control automatically-keyed IPsec connections

SYNOPSIS

       ipsec auto [--show] [--showonly] [--asynchronous]
	     [--config configfile] [--verbose] operation connection

       ipsec auto [--show] [--showonly] [--asynchronous]
	     [--config configfile] [--verbose] operation connection

EXAMPLES

       ipsec auto { --add | --delete | --replace | --up | --down } connection

       ipsec auto { --status | --ready } connection

       ipsec auto { --route | --unroute } connection

       ipsec auto [--utc] [--listall | --rereadall] [--rereadsecrets] [--listcerts] [--listpubkeys] [--checkpubkeys] [--listcacerts |
	     --rereadcacerts] [--listcrls | --rereadcrls] [[--listocspcerts | --rereadocspcerts ] [--listocsp | --purgeocsp ]] [--listacerts |
	     --rereadacerts] [--listaacerts | --rereadaacerts] [--listgroups | --rereadgroups]

DESCRIPTION

       Auto manipulates automatically-keyed Openswan IPsec connections, setting them up and shutting them down based on the information in the
       IPsec configuration file. In the normal usage, connection is the name of a connection specification in the configuration file; operation is
       --add, --delete, --replace, --up, --down, --route, or --unroute. The --ready, --rereadsecrets, --rereadgroups, and --status operations do
       not take a connection name.  Auto generates suitable commands and feeds them to a shell for execution.

       The --add operation adds a connection specification to the internal database within pluto; it will fail if pluto already has a
       specification by that name. The --delete operation deletes a connection specification from pluto's internal database (also tearing down any
       connections based on it); it will fail if the specification does not exist. The --replace operation is equivalent to --delete (if there is
       already a specification by the given name) followed by --add, and is a convenience for updating pluto's internal specification to match an
       external one. (Note that a --rereadsecrets may also be needed.) The --rereadgroups operation causes any changes to the policy group files
       to take effect (this is currently a synonym for --ready, but that may change). None of the other operations alters the internal database.

       The --up operation asks pluto to establish a connection based on an entry in its internal database. The --down operation tells pluto to
       tear down such a connection.

       Normally, pluto establishes a route to the destination specified for a connection as part of the --up operation. However, the route and
       only the route can be established with the --route operation. Until and unless an actual connection is established, this discards any
       packets sent there, which may be preferable to having them sent elsewhere based on a more general route (e.g., a default route).

       Normally, pluto's route to a destination remains in place when a --down operation is used to take the connection down (or if connection
       setup, or later automatic rekeying, fails). This permits establishing a new connection (perhaps using a different specification; the route
       is altered as necessary) without having a "window" in which packets might go elsewhere based on a more general route. Such a route can be
       removed using the --unroute operation (and is implicitly removed by --delete).

       The --ready operation tells pluto to listen for connection-setup requests from other hosts. Doing an --up operation before doing --ready on
       both ends is futile and will not work, although this is now automated as part of IPsec startup and should not normally be an issue.

       The --status operation asks pluto for current connection status. The output format is ad-hoc and likely to change.

       The --rereadsecrets operation tells pluto to re-read the /etc/ipsec.secrets secret-keys file, which it normally reads only at startup time.
       (This is currently a synonym for --ready, but that may change.)

       The --rereadsecrets operation tells pluto to re-read the /etc/ipsec.secrets secret-keys file, which it normally reads only at startup time.
       (This is currently a synonym for --ready, but that may change.)

       The --rereadcacerts operation reads all certificate files contained in the /etc/ipsec.d/cacerts directory and adds them to plutoas list of
       Certification Authority (CA) certificates.

       The --rereadaacerts operation reads all certificate files contained in the /etc/ipsec.d/aacerts directory and adds them to plutoas list of
       Authorization Authority (AA) certificates.

       The --rereadocspcerts operation reads all certificate files contained in the /etc/ipsec.d/ocspcerts directory and adds them to plutoas list
       of OCSP signer certificates.

       The --rereadacerts operation reads all certificate files contained in the /etc/ipsec.d/acerts directory and adds them to plutoas list of
       attribute certificates.

       The --rereadcrls operation reads all certificate revocation list (CRL) files contained in the /etc/ipsec.d/crls directory and adds them to
       plutoas list of CRLs.

       The --rereadall operation is equivalent to the execution of --rereadse- crets, --rereadcacerts, --rereadaacerts, --rereadocspcerts,
       --rereadac- erts, and --rereadcrls.

       The --listpubkeys operation lists all RSA public keys either received from peers via the IKE protocol embedded in authenticated certificate
       payloads or loaded locally using the rightcert / leftcert or rightr- sasigkey / leftrsasigkey parameters in ipsec.conf(5).

       The --listcerts operation lists all X.509 certificates loaded locally using the rightcert and leftcert parameters in ipsec.conf(5).

       The --checkpubkeys operation lists all loaded X.509 certificates which are about to expire or have been expired.

       The --listcacerts operation lists all X.509 CA certificates either loaded locally from the /etc/ipsec.d/cacerts directory or received in
       PKCS#7-wrapped certificate payloads via the IKE protocol.

       The --listaacerts operation lists all X.509 AA certificates loaded locally from the /etc/ipsec.d/aacerts directory.

       The --listocspcerts operation lists all OCSP signer certificates either loaded locally from the /etc/ipsec.d/ocspcerts directory or
       received via the Online Certificate Status Protocol from an OCSP server.

       The --listacerts operation lists all X.509 attribute certificates loaded locally from the /etc/ipsec.d/acerts directory.

       The --listgropus operation lists all groups that are either used in connection definitions in ipsec.conf(5) or are embedded in loaded X.509
       attributes certificates.

       The --listcainfos operation lists the certification authority informa- tion specified in the ca sections of ipsec.conf(5).

       The --listcrls operation lists all Certificate Revocation Lists (CRLs) either loaded locally from the /etc/ipsec.d/crls directory or
       fetched dynamically from an HTTP or LDAP server.

       The --listocsp operation lists the certicates status information fetched from OCSP servers.

       The --purgeocsp operation deletes any cached certificate status infor- mation and pending OCSP fetch requests.

       The --listall operation is equivalent to the execution of --listpubkeys, --listcerts, --listcacerts, --listaacerts, --listoc- spcerts,
       --listacerts, --listgroups, --listcainfos, --listcrls, --lis- tocsp.

       The --showonly option causes auto to show the commands it would run, on standard output, and not run them.

       The --asynchronous option, applicable only to the up operation, tells pluto to attempt to establish the connection, but does not delay to
       report results. This is especially useful to start multiple connections in parallel when network links are slow.

       The --verbose option instructs auto to pass through all output from ipsec_whack(8), including log output that is normally filtered out as
       uninteresting.

       The --show option turns on the -x option of the shell used to execute the commands, so each command is shown as it is executed.

       The --config option specifies a non-standard location for the IPsec configuration file (default /etc/ipsec.conf).

       See ipsec.conf(5) for details of the configuration file.

FILES

	   /etc/ipsec.conf		 default IPSEC configuration file
	   /etc/ipsec.d/	    X.509 and Opportunistic Encryption files
	   /var/run/pluto/ipsec.info	 %defaultroute information
	   /var/run/pluto/pluto.ctl Pluto command socket

SEE ALSO

       ipsec.conf(5), ipsec(8), ipsec_pluto(8), ipsec_whack(8), ipsec_manual(8)

HISTORY

       Originally written for the FreeS/WAN project <http://www.freeswan.org> by Henry Spencer.

BUGS

       Although an --up operation does connection setup on both ends, --down tears only one end of the connection down (although the orphaned end
       will eventually time out).

       There is no support for passthrough connections.

       A connection description which uses %defaultroute for one of its nexthop parameters but not the other may be falsely rejected as erroneous
       in some circumstances.

       The exit status of --showonly does not always reflect errors discovered during processing of the request. (This is fine for human
       inspection, but not so good for use in scripts.)

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