Subject: [netatalk-admins] a cold wind bloweth
From: a sun (asun@saul4.u.washington.edu)
Date: Mon May 24 1999 - 16:49:39 EDT
hi all,
i would like to feature freeze my latest snapshot and make sure that
it's as bug-free(tm) as possible. so, here's what i would like:
1) reports on things that used to work that no longer do.
2) reports on things that cause crashes. i need to know how to
duplicate this.
3) notes on whether or not it works properly on *bsd, sunos, and
ultrix. if it doesn't, i need info on how to get it to work
(most likely in the area of the shared library support).
4) please make sure to edit the global Makefile to suit your
needs. it suits mine, but then i tend to turn on lots of
stuff. just because it doesn't compile doesn't mean that it's
a problem.
5) i've purposely broken the did database stuff for now so that i
can add in all the bits needed for almost full AFP
compliance. so, don't use it now. it will get fixed after this
upcoming release.
what's new in this snapshot?
1) global afppasswd file for randnum authentication. if you
specify -passwdfile ${RESDIR}/etc/afppasswd, it will use that
instead. if there's an afppasswd.key file, it will use the
hex-translated password stored in that file to des
encrypt/decrypt the user passwords. needless to say, only
root should be able to do all of this. there's an afppasswd
utility as well. if you're not root, however, it will only
modify ${RESDIR}/etc/afppasswd.
beyond that, afppasswd also uses cracklib if requested. i
forgot to add in the appropriate call to the password changing
part of uam_randnum.so though. that'll appear in the next
version.
2) rwlist/rolist in AppleVolumes.*. these are like allow/deny
except they modify the readonly volume flag. note: if you have
a rwlist, the user must be in that to get rw behaviour. also,
this doesn't override file permissions.
3) some miscellaneous bug fixes. there's also a workaround for
apple's broken macbinary II files.
4) oh yeah, you might want to try out the DHX uam. it's a
public-key exchange based authentication method. you can get
the plug-in from the 3.8.3 appleshare client image. note: if
you get an error, you'll get dropped into macsbug. to get
things to work, you'll need the cryptolib from ssleay. in
addition, there's currently a bug in the 3.8.3 uam that i work
around. i'll be getting rid of the workaround as soon as 3.8.4
appears.
note: because i've switched to plug-in uams, the old method of
specifying them no longer works. please read config/afpd.conf for
further info.
location:
<ftp://ftp.u.washington.edu/public/asun/testing/pre-asun2.1.4-17.tar.gz>
-a
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