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8.2.9 goes public tonight

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Ramm)
Mon Aug 10 16:40:18 1998

To: release-announce@MIT.EDU
From: Karl Ramm <kcr@MIT.EDU>
Date: 10 Aug 1998 16:39:51 -0400

Just a friendly reminder.  Changes include:

        * krb5 ticket forwarding works in sshd.  We promise.

        * A memory allocation bug was fixed in sshd.

        * A security hole in password authentication was fixed in
          sshd.

        * telnetd supports a message in /etc/prelogin displayed before
          the login banner.

        * telnet -l username doesn't disable the default options.

        * telnet -k realm works for krb4 realms.

        * A file descriptor leak was corrected in access_off.

        * Monitor power saving is disabled at login time, since it
          seems to annoy people.

        * The "gray" bitmaps used by dash and console have been
          corrected and updated.

        * The wtmp and wtmpx logs are now kept for 10 days instead of
          for 150K.

        * "zctl unhide" sets a minimum exposure of realm-visible,
          restoring the 8.1 functionality of allowing users with
          default visibility opstaff to be visible for only their
          current session.

        * On Solaris, the lp emulation script has been improved to
          handle the functionality required by the native xdpr (and
          possibly other programs).

        * On Solaris, discuss gets the screen width instead of
          assuming 80 columns (it already did so on other platforms).

        * On IRIX, mwm uses point to focus by default.

        * On IRIX, the /etc/athena/rc.conf comments have been
          corrected.

        * On IRIX, the /usr/athena/bin/perl symlink has been pointed
          at perl 5 instead of perl 4.


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