[1866] in Release_7.7_team
8.3.13 patch release TONIGHT
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Wed Jul 14 15:45:14 1999
Date: Wed, 14 Jul 1999 15:45:07 -0400
Message-Id: <199907141945.PAA16030@small-gods.mit.edu>
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
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Hi, there's been a change of plan regarding the next 8.3 patch
release. It will happen tonight (Wednesday), instead of next Monday
night. This is because of increased security concerns regarding the
Solaris cmsd service.
It's also called 8.3.13 now, instead of 8.3.11, because of a couple of
rounds of fixes in the dev cell.
Changes in 8.3.13 include (there's one new change listed at the
beginning here):
* "renew" will properly get new tokens if your tokens haven't
expired yet.
* The cmsd service will be turned off on Solaris machines in
/etc/inet/inetd.conf.
* The username is displayed for local password changes.
* xmore should work on IRIX.
* larvnetd can deal with lprng print servers better.
* The login library has a workaround for IRIX's caching of the
passwd file. This should make kshd work for users not in
the passwd file.
* There is a new config file installed, lpd.perms.
* The lprng script banner.pl has been renamed to banner.
* There are new lprng scripts check_unprintable and
reject_unprintable to reject printing of binary files.
* lpd will syslog all uses of control permissions at
level lpr.info.
* lpr won't look up the default printer if one is specified on
the command line.
* lprng won't ignore filters' exit status any more.
* The IRIX netscape app-defaults file is gone.
* emacs will use a user's components file, but still find the
default one in the right place.
* The Athena inetd won't lose on dgram/wait services like
busyd any more.
* xscreensaver will accept ^N (dvorak for ^L) to log out. Not
a perfect fix, but it should suffice for now.
* xscreensaver won't complain about being unable to get an
encrypted password from the passwd file if you specify one
