From: Todd C. Miller Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 02:33:09 +0000 (+0000) Subject: update to reality X-Git-Tag: SUDO_1_6_0~34 X-Git-Url: https://granicus.if.org/sourcecode?a=commitdiff_plain;h=e0a83ab41c340784e597cfa8a99e10bda072d9a5;p=sudo update to reality --- diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES index 15f6cc31a..3b482e052 100644 --- a/CHANGES +++ b/CHANGES @@ -1072,9 +1072,9 @@ Sudo 1.5.9 released. to anything real. Instead, we just use a max password size of 256 everywhere. -337) Block all signals during startup (for non-POSIX signals we only block - some of them) and restore signal mask before exec'ing the program. - We don't want the user to be able to simply kill us and avoid logging. +337) Block keyboard-generated signals during startup and restore signal + mask before exec'ing the program. We don't want the user to be + able to simply kill us and avoid logging. 338) Rewrote timestamp handling. For the default case, a directory is used instead of a file. For the tty-based case, the timestamp is just a @@ -1126,7 +1126,7 @@ Sudo 1.5.9 released. 352) Fixed crypt() check in libufc. 353) It is now possible to put a list of users as the first thing in a - user specification. I don't suggest ths but it makes the grammar + user specification. I don't suggest this but it makes the grammar more uniform. 354) Visudo will now warn about what it thinks are undefined aliases. @@ -1163,3 +1163,15 @@ Sudo 1.5.9 released. Normal parsing (ie: not in '-l' mode) is unaffected. 365) Now include strcasecmp() for those without it. + +366) Most compile-time options are now changable at runtime via + the 'Defaults' specification in the sudoers file. + +367) Added a -L flag to printout all the possible 'Defaults' parameters. + +368) It is now possible to escape "special" characters in usernames, hostnames, + etc with a backslash. + +369) Sudo will now accept a hostname/username/netgroupname that contains + almost any character in it. It seems many people want to use '.' + and other non-alphanumberics in usernames.