VLMCSD.INI(5)                KMS Activation Manual               VLMCSD.INI(5)



NAME
       vlmcsd.ini - vlmcsd KMS emulator configuration file


SYNOPSIS
       vlmcsd.ini


DESCRIPTION
       vlmcsd.ini  (or  simply  called the "ini file") is a configuration file
       for vlmcsd(8). By default vlmcsd does not use a configuration file.  It
       is completely optional and for advanced users only. You must use the -i
       option on the vlmcsd command line to use  an  ini  file.  There  is  no
       default name or default location for the ini file.

       Everything,  that can be configured in the ini file, may also be speci‐
       fied on the command line. Any configuration  option  specified  on  the
       command line takes precedence over the respective configuration line in
       the ini file.

       Benefits of a configuration file

       While you can use the configuration file to simply modify  the  default
       behavior  of vlmcsd, it can also be used to change the configuration of
       vlmcsd after you sent a HUP signal(7). Whenever you  send  SIGHUP,  the
       configuration  file  will  be  re-read. Any changes you made to the ini
       file will be reflected after vlmcsd received the hangup signal.

       Differences between command line and configuration file

       If you specify an illegal option or  option  argument  on  the  command
       line,  vlmcsd displays help and exits. If you specify an incorrect key‐
       word or argument in the ini file, vlmcsd displays a warning  with  some
       information,  ignores the respective line and continues. This is inten‐
       tional and prevents vlmcsd from aborting after a SIGHUP if the configu‐
       ration was modified incorrectly.


SYNTAX
       vlmcsd.ini  is  a  UTF-8  encoded text file with each line being in the
       format keyword = argument. The keyword is not case-sensitive. The argu‐
       ment  is  treated  literally.  It  is  neither  required nor allowed to
       enclose the argument in any form of quote characters except when  quote
       characters  are  part of the argument itself. Whitespace characters are
       ignored only

       - at the beginning of a line
       - between the keyword and '='
       - between '=' and the argument

       Lines, that start with '#' or ';' are treated as comments. Empty  lines
       are  ignored  as well. If a keyword is repeated in another line, vlmcsd
       will use the argument of the last occurence of the keyword.  An  excep‐
       tion  to  this  is  the  Listen keyword which can be specified multiple
       times and causes vlmcsd to listen on more than one  IP  address  and/or
       port.

       Some  arguments  are  binary  arguments  that need to be either TRUE or
       FALSE. You can use "Yes", "On" or "1" as an alias for  TRUE  and  "No",
       "Off"  or "0" as an alias for FALSE. Binary arguments are case-insensi‐
       tive.


KEYWORDS
       The following keywords are defined (not all keywords may  be  available
       depending  on  the operating system and the options used when vlmcsd(8)
       was compiled):


       Listen This defines on what combinations of IP addresses and ports vlm‐
              csd  should  listen. Listen can be specified more than once. The
              argument has the form ipaddress[:port]. If you  omit  the  port,
              the  default  port  of  1688  is used. If the ipaddress contains
              colons and a port is used, you must  enclose  the  ipaddress  in
              brackets. The default is to listen to 0.0.0.0:1688 and [::]:1688
              which means listen to all IPv4 and all IPv6 addresses.  See  the
              -L  option  in  vlmcsd(8) for more info about the syntax. If you
              use -L or -P on the command line, all Listen keywords in the ini
              file  will be ignored. The Listen keyword cannot be used if vlm‐
              csd has been compiled to use Microsoft RPC (Windows  and  Cygwin
              only) or simple sockets.

              Examples:

              Listen = 192.168.1.123:1688
              Listen = 0.0.0.0:1234
              Listen = [fe80::1721:12ff:fe81:d36b%eth0]:1688


       Port   Can only be used if vlmcsd has been compiled to use simple sock‐
              ets or on Windows and Cygwin if vlmcsd(8) has been  compiled  to
              use Microsoft RPC. Otherwise you must use Listen instead. Causes
              vlmcsd to listen on that port instead of 1688.


       FreeBind
              Can be TRUE or FALSE. If TRUE, you can use  the  Listen  keyword
              with IP addresses that are currently not defined on your system.
              vlmcsd(8) will start listening on these IP addresses as soon  as
              they  become  available.  This  keyword  is only available under
              Linux and FreeBSD because no other OS  currently  supports  that
              feature.  FreeBSD  supports  this only for IPv4 and requires the
              PRIV_NETINET_BINDANY privilege which  is  normally  assigned  to
              proccesses of the root user.


       PublicIPProtectionLevel
              Set  the level of protection against KMS activations from public
              IP addresses.

              0 = No protection (default)
              1 = Listen on private IP addresses only (plus those specified by
              one or more Listen statements)
              2 = Disconnect clients with public IP addresses without activat‐
              ing
              3 = Combines 1 and 2

              For details on public IP protection levels see vlmcsd(8) command
              line option -o.


       UseNDR64
              Can  be  TRUE  or  FALSE.  Specifies whether you want to use the
              NDR64 transfer syntax. See options -n0 and -n1 in vlmcsd(8). The
              default is TRUE.


       UseBTFN
              Can  be  TRUE  or  FALSE. Specifies whether you want to use bind
              time feature negotiation in RPC. See options -b0 and -b1 in vlm‐
              csd(8). The default is TRUE.


       RandomizationLevel
              The  argument must 0, 1 or 2. This specifies the ePID randomiza‐
              tion level. See options -r0,  -r1  and  -r2  in  vlmcsd(8).  The
              default randomization level is 1.


       LCID   Use a specific culture id (LCID) even if the ePID is randomized.
              The argument must be a number between 1  and  32767.  While  any
              number in that range is valid, you should use an offcial LCID. A
              list of  assigned  LCIDs  can  be  found  at  http://msdn.micro‐
              soft.com/en-us/goglobal/bb964664.aspx.  On  the command line you
              control this setting with option -C.


       MaxWorkers
              The argument specifies the maximum number of worker processes or
              threads  that  will be used to serve activation requests concur‐
              rently. This is the same as specifying -m on the  command  line.
              Minimum  is  1. The maximum is platform specific and is at least
              32767 but is likely to be greater on most systems.  The  default
              is no limit.


       ConnectionTimeout
              Used  to  control  when  the vlmcsd disconnects idle TPC connec‐
              tions. The default is 30 seconds. This is the same setting as -t
              on the command line.


       DisconnectClientsImmediately
              Set  this to TRUE to disconnect a client after it got an activa‐
              tion response regardless whether a timeout has occured  or  not.
              The  default  is  FALSE.  Setting  this  to TRUE is non-standard
              behavior. Use only if you are experiencing DoS or DDoS  attacks.
              On  the  command  line you control this behavior with options -d
              and -k.


       PidFile
              Write a pid file. The argument is the full  pathname  of  a  pid
              file.  The  pid  file  contains  is  single  line containing the
              process id of the  vlmcsd  process.  It  can  be  used  to  stop
              (SIGTERM)  or  restart  (SIGHUP)  vlmcsd.  This directive can be
              overriden using -p on the command line.


       LogFile
              Write a log file. The argument is the full  pathname  of  a  log
              file.  On  a  unixoid OS and with Cygwin you can use the special
              filename 'syslog' to log to the syslog  facility.  This  is  the
              same as specifying -l on the command line.


       LogDateAndTime
              Can be TRUE or FALSE. The default is TRUE. If set to FALSE, log‐
              ging output does not include date and time. This  is  useful  if
              you  log  to  stdout(3)  which  is redirected to another logging
              mechanism that already includes date and time in its output, for
              instance  systemd-journald(8). If you log to syslog(3), LogDate‐
              AndTime is ignored and date and time will never be  included  in
              the output sent to syslog(3). Using the command line you control
              this setting with options -T0 and -T1.


       LogVerbose
              Set this to either TRUE or FALSE. The default is FALSE.  If  set
              to TRUE, more details of each activation will be logged. You use
              -v and -q in the command line to control this  setting.  LogVer‐
              bose  has  an  effect only if you specify a log file or redirect
              logging to stdout(3).


       ActivationInterval
              This is the same as specifying -A on the command line. See  vlm‐
              csd(8) for details. The default is 2 hours. Example: Activation‐
              Interval = 1h


       RenewalInterval
              This is the same as specifying -R on the command line. See  vlm‐
              csd(8)  for  details. The default is 7 days. Example: RenewalIn‐
              terval = 3d. Please note that the KMS client decides itself when
              to renew activation. Even though vlmcsd sends the renewal inter‐
              val you specify, it is no more than some kind of  recommendation
              to  the  client. Older KMS clients did follow the recommendation
              from a KMS server or emulator. Newer clients do not.


       User   Run vlmcsd as another, preferrably less  privileged,  user.  The
              argument  can be a user name or a numeric user id. You must have
              the required privileges (capabilities on Linux)  to  change  the
              security  context of a process without providing any credentials
              (a password in most cases). On most unixoid OSses 'root' is  the
              only user who has these privileges in the default configuration.
              This setting is not available in the native Windows  version  of
              vlmcsd.  See  -u in vlmcsd(8). This setting cannot be changed on
              the fly by sending SIGHUP to vlmcsd.


       Group  Run vlmcsd as another, preferrably less privileged,  group.  The
              argument  can  be  a  group name or a numeric group id. You must
              have the required privileges (capabilities on Linux)  to  change
              the  security context of a process without providing any creden‐
              tials (a password in most cases). On most unixoid  OSses  'root'
              is the only user who has these privileges in the default config‐
              uration. This setting is not available  in  the  native  Windows
              version  of  vlmcsd. See -g in vlmcsd(8). This setting cannot be
              changed on the fly by sending SIGHUP to vlmcsd.


SPECIAL KEYWORDS
       Any valid GUID is being treated as a special keyword in the  ini  file.
       It  is  used to select a specfic ePID and HwId for an application GUID.
       The argument has the form ePID [ / HwId ]. KMS currently knows  only  3
       application GUIDs:

       55c92734-d682-4d71-983e-d6ec3f16059f (Windows)
       59a52881-a989-479d-af46-f275c6370663 (Office 2010)
       0ff1ce15-a989-479d-af46-f275c6370663 (Office 2013)

       To use specific ePIDs for Windows, Office 2010 and Office 2013/2016 you
       could add the following lines to vlmcsd.ini:

       55c92734-d682-4d71-983e-d6ec3f16059f = 55041-00206-184-207146-03-1062-6002.0000-3322013
       59a52881-a989-479d-af46-f275c6370663 = 55041-00096-216-598637-03-17418-6002.0000-3312013
       0ff1ce15-a989-479d-af46-f275c6370663 = 55041-00206-234-742099-03-9217-6002.0000-2942013

       The  ePID is currently a comment only. You can specify any string up to
       63 bytes. In Windows 7 Microsoft has blacklisted few (  <  10  )  ePIDs
       that  were  used  in KMSv5 versions of the "ratiborus virtual machine".
       Microsoft has given up on blacklisting when KMS emulators  appeared  in
       the wild.

       Even if you can use "Activated by cool hacker guys" as an ePID, you may
       wish to use ePIDs that cannot be detected as non-MS ePIDs. If you don't
       know  how  these  "valid"  ePIDs look like exactly, do not use GUIDS in
       vlmcsd.ini. vlmcsd  provides  internal  mechanisms  to  generate  valid
       ePIDs.

       If you use non-ASCII characters in your ePID (you shouldn't do anyway),
       these must be in UTF-8 format. This is especially  important  when  you
       run vlmcsd on Windows or cygwin because UTF-8 is not the default encod‐
       ing for most editors.

       If you are specifying an optional HWID it follows the same syntax as in
       the  -H  option in vlmcsd(8) ecxept that you must not enclose a HWID in
       quotes even if it contains spaces.


FILES
       vlmcsd.ini(5)


AUTHOR
       vlmcsd(8) was written by crony12, Hotbird64 and vityan666. With contri‐
       butions from DougQaid.


CREDITS
       Thanks  to  CODYQX4,  deagles,  eIcn, mikmik38, nosferati87, qad, Rati‐
       borus, ...


SEE ALSO
       vlmcsd(8), vlmcsd(7), vlmcs(1), vlmcsdmulti(1)



Hotbird64                          July 2016                     VLMCSD.INI(5)
