Where you should replace XXXXXX with a bug-id.
-If you have found a bug in Linux-PAM, please consider filing such a
+For general documentation completion work, I'm doing it all with
+respect to specific tasks. Open tasks are listed here:
+
+ http://sourceforge.net/pm/task.php?group_id=6663&group_project_id=2741&func=browse&set=open
+
+If you have found a bug in Linux-PAM (including a documentation bug,
+or a new feature request and/or patch), please consider filing such a
bug report - outstanding bugs are listed here:
http://sourceforge.net/tracker/?atid=106663&group_id=6663&func=browse
-(to file another bug see the 'submit bug' button on this page).
+(to file another bug see the 'submit bug' button on that page).
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-0.76: please submit patches for this section with actual code/doc
+0.78: please submit patches for this section with actual code/doc
patches!
-* pam_pwdb: Solar Designer pointed out that there was a problem with
- the compatibility support for md5 password hashing. (Bug 460717 -
+* pam_unix: severe denial of service possible with this module since
+ it locked too aggressively. Bug report and testing help from Sascha
+ Loetz. (Bug 664290 - agmorgan)
+* getlogin was spoofable: "/tmp/" and "/dev/" have the same number of
+ characters, so 'ln /dev/tty /tmp/tty1 ; bash < /tmp/tty1 ; logname'
+ attacks could potentially spoof pam_wheel with the 'trust' module
+ argument into granting access to a luser. Also, pam_unix gave
+ odd error messages in such a situation (logname != uid). This
+ problem was found by David Endler of iDefense.com (Bug 667584 -
+ agmorgan).
+* added my new DSA public key to the pgp.keys.asc file. Also included
+ a signed copy of my new public key (1024D/D41A6DF2) made with my old
+ key (1024/2A398175).
+
+0.77: Mon Sep 23 10:25:42 PDT 2002
+
+* documentation support for pdf files was not quite right -
+ installation was messed up.
+* pam_wheel was too aggressive to grant access (in the case of the
+ 'deny' option you want to pay attention to 'trust'). Fix from
+ Nalin (Bugs 476951, 476953 - agmorgan)
+* account management support for: pam_shells, pam_listfile, pam_wheel
+ and pam_securetty (+ static module fix for pam_nologin). Patch from
+ redhat through Harald Welte (Bug 436435 - agmorgan).
+* pam_wheel feature from Nalin - can use the module to provide wheel
+ access to non-root accounts. Also from Nalin, a bugfix related to
+ the primary group of the applicant is the 'wheel' group. (Bugs
+ 476980, 476941 - agmorgan)
+* pam_unix and pam_pwdb: by default turn off the SIGCHLD handler while
+ running the helper binary (patch from Nalin) added the "noreap"
+ module argument to both of these modules to turn off this new
+ default. Bugfix found by Silvan Minghetti for former module and
+ 521314 checkin. (Bugs 476963, 521314 - agmorgan).
+* updated CHANGELOG and configure.in for 0.77 work.
+
+0.76: Mon Jul 8 21:44:59 PDT 2002
+
+* pam_unix: fix for legacy crypt() support when the password entered
+ was long. (Bug 521314 - agmorgan).
+* pam_access no longer include gethostname() prototype complaint from
+ David Lee (Bug 415423 - agmorgan).
+* make pam_nologin more secure by default, added two new module
+ arguments etc. - acting on suggestion from Nico (Bug 419307 -
+ agmorgan)
+* link in libpam to libpam_misc - since the latter uses functions in
+ the former it makes some sort of sense to do this (although, in the
+ static library case, I remain to be convinced). (Bug 565470 -
+ agmorgan).
+* absorbed some of the proposed darwin (OS X) changes from Luke Howard
+ (of PADL software) - hopefully will get the rest (see Rob Braun's
+ 534205) by 0.77 (Bug 491466 - agmorgan).
+* README fix for pam_unix from Nalin (Bug 476971 - agmorgan).
+* add support for building pdf files from the documentation - request
+ from 'lolive' (Bug 471377 - agmorgan).
+* documented the equivalent '[..]' expressions for "required"
+ etc. Request from Ross Patterson (Bug 529078 - agmorgan).
+* '[...]' parsing: document it and also fix it to support '\]' escape
+ sequence. Feature request from Russell Kliese (Bug 517064 -
+ agmorgan).
+* pam_rootok: compilation warning noted by Tony den Haan wrt no
+ prototype for strcmp() (Bug 557322 - agmorgan).
+* documentation: (a few of mine in passing) and app documentation
+ suggestions regarding PAM environment variables and module
+ documentation changes regarding the conversation function from Jenn
+ Vesperman (Bug 527821, 527965 - agmorgan)
+* documentation: pam_time.sgml typo fixed, pam_motd exists now,
+ correct Red Hat comment about config files (Bugs 554274, 554261,
+ 554182 - agmorgan)
+* pam_limits: added '%' domain for maxlogins limiting, now '*' and @group
+ have the old meaning (every) and '%' the new one (all)
+ (Bug 533664 - baggins)
+* pam_limits: put not so interesting log messages under debug arg
+ (Bug 533668 - baggins)
+* pam_access: added the 'fieldsep=' argument (Bug 547051 - agmorgan),
+ made a PAM_RHOST of "" equivalent to NULL (Bug 547521 - agmorgan).
+* pam_limits: keep well know behaviour of maxlogins default ('*') limit
+ (Bug 533664 - baggins)
+* pam_unix: more from Nalin log password changes (Bug 517743 - agmorgan)
+* pam_limits: make it use the priority value specified in config
+ (bug 530428 - baggins)
+* pam_unix: removed broken code in password update code. Report from
+ Len Lattanzi (Bug 507379 - agmorgan)
+* pam_mkhomedir: recurse directories. Patch from Nalin (Bug 476981 -
+ agmorgan)
+* pam_limits can handle negative priority limits now (which can apply
+ to the superuser too) - based on patch from Nalin. Also cleanup the
+ error handling that was very sloppy before. Also, courtesy of Berend
+ De Schouwe get the math right on login counting (Bug 476990, 476987,
+ 493294 - agmorgan)
+* documentation: random typo fixes from Nalin and more stuff from me
+ (Bug 476949, Tasks 43507, 17426 - agmorgan)
+* A Tru64 fix (given other stuff has already resolved this, it
+ actually just a comment actually) from 'Eddie'. (Bug 418450 -
+ agmorgan)
+* pam_handlers: BSD fix from Dag-Erling Smørgrav and Anton Berezin
+ (Bug 486063 - agmorgan)
+* added the dynamic/* directory to the distribution. If you go in
+ there after building the rest of the tree, you'll make a pam.so
+ object that can be used by something like a java runtime with
+ dlopen. Its not very well tested - caveat emptor. (Bug 232194 -
+ agmorgan)
+* somehow pam_unix has started forcing the user prompt to be "login: ".
+ This is entirely inapropriate as it overrides PAM_USER_PROMPT. (Bug
+ 486361 - agmorgan).
+* added a static module helper library object includes a few changes
+ to examples/xsh.c for testing purposes (added a simple shell wrapper
+ for running xsh with the sandbox libraries), and also modified the
+ pam_rhosts_auth module to use this new library. (Bug 490938, 409852
+ - agmorgan).
+* pam_unix: fix 'likeauth' to kill off the memory leak once and for all.
+ (Bug 483959 - vorlon)
+* pam_unix: restore handling of 'likeauth' argument to a known working
+ state; prettify AUTH_RETURN macro; remove redundant argv checks in
+ pam_sm_setcred() (Bugs 483959, 113596 - vorlon)
+* pam_cracklib: another try at implementing similar() from Harald
+ Welte and Nalin (Bugs 436053, 476957 - agmorgan)
+* pam_access: default access.conf file contained a type (console
+ instead of LOCAL) fix from Nalin (Bug 476934 - agmorgan)
+* pam_unix: fixed bizarre memory leak pointed out by Fernando Trias
+ (Bug 483959 - agmorgan)
+* misc string comparison length checking changes from Nalin. Modules
+ touched, pam_cracklib, pam_listfile, pam_unix, pam_wheel (Bug 476947 -
agmorgan)
+* pam_userdb: require that all of typed password matches that in
+ database report and fix from Vladimir Pastukhov. (Bug 484252 - agmorgan)
+* pam_malloc: revived malloc debugging code, now tied to
+ --enable-memory-debug and added strdup() support (Bug 485454 - agmorgan)
+* pam_tally: Nalin's fix for lastlog corruption (Bug 476985 - agmorgan)
+* pam_rhosts: Nalin adds support for '+hostname', and zdd fix
+ compilation warning. (Bug 476986 - agmorgan)
+* pam_motd: Nalin fixed compiler warning. (Bug 476938 - agmorgan)
+* pam_pwdb: Solar Designer pointed out that there was a problem with
+ the compatibility support for md5 password hashing. (Bug 460717,
+ 476961 - agmorgan)
* pam_issue: Nalin found segfaulting problems if the PAM_USER_PROMPT
is unset, found some similar problems with assumptions about
realloc. (Bug 476983 - agmorgan)
from Nalin (Bug 476940 - agmorgan)
* pam_filter cleanup (including moving the filter directory) Nalin
and Harald Welte (Bugs 436057, 476970 - agmorgan)
-* pam_limits can handle negative priority limits now (which can apply
- to the superuser too) - based on patch from Nalin. Also cleanup the
- error handling that was very sloppy before (Bug 476990, 476987 -
- agmorgan)
* db3 is now recognized as a libdb candidate (Bug 435764 - agmorgan)
* more changes (extracted from redhat version) courtesy of
Harald Welte (Bugs pam_limits=436061, pam_lastlog=436060,
* verified that the setcred stack didn't suffer from the bug I was
nervous about, add a new module pam_debug to help me test this.
fixed a libpam/pam_dispatch.c instrumentation line that I tripped
- over when testing. (Bug 424315 - agmorgan)
+ over when testing. Also restructured pam_warn to help here (Bug
+ 424315 - agmorgan).
* pam_unix/support.c: sample use of reentrant NSS function. Not yet active,
because modules do not include _pam_aconf_h! (Bug 440107 - vorlon)
* doc/Makefile changes - use $(mandir) [courtesy Harald Welte] (Bug
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