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IPSEC(8)		      Executable programs		      IPSEC(8)

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.

       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 ``Uxxx/Kyyy'' 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

SEE ALSO
       ipsec.conf(5), ipsec.secrets(5), ipsec_auto(8), ipsec_barf(8),
       ipsec_setup(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.

AUTHOR
       Paul Wouters
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libreswan			  12/29/2012			      IPSEC(8)

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