ikea(1)

ikea1

Internet key exchange access manager

Overview

The ikea Qt GUI application is used to manage remote Site Configurations. A remote Site Configuration describes all the parameters used to establish an IPsec VPN Client connection with a remote gateway. In addition to the creation, removal and modificaion of remote Site Configurations, the ikea application also allows a user to launch the ikec(1) ( Shrew Soft IKE Connect ) Qt GUI application for the selected Site.

Return values

The command exits with 0 on success, and non-zero on errors.

Files

All user related configuration data is stored under the ~/.iked directory. Site Configuration files are stored under the ~/.iked/sites directory. Certificates and keys are are typically stored under the ~/.iked/certs directory. These directories are automatically created when the ikea application is run for the first time by a user.

Releases

Unchanged in 2 releases since Debian 5.0 (Lenny).

  1. 5.0–6.0

History

The ikea program was written by Matthew Grooms ( [email protected] ) as part of the Shrew Soft ( http://www.shrew.net ) family of IPsec products.

From ike-qtgui 2.1.5+dfsg-2 in Debian 6.0 (Squeeze). Parsed by carta from the page's mdoc source.