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SME Server 8.0 Beta 7 Release Notes |
SME Server 8.1 Release Notes |
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DATE TBD |
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The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of |
The SME Server development team is pleased to announce the release of |
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SME Server 8.0beta7 which is based on CentOS 5.6 and will be the next |
SME Server 8.1 which is based on CentOS 5.9 |
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Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised in the bug |
Bug reports and reports of potential bugs should be raised in the bug |
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tracker (and only there, please); |
tracker (and only there, please); |
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http://bugs.contribs.org/ |
http://bugs.contribs.org/ |
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Testers Please Note the following... |
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1. SME Server users should not upgrade production servers to this |
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release but those who can are encouraged to load the beta to a |
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dedicated test machine and take part in the testing phase. |
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2. CentOS 5 has dropped support for i586 and therefore SME Server 8 |
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will not work on i586 hardware. [See bugzilla:2845]. i586 hardware |
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means processors before and including Intel Pentium, Pentium MMX; |
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AMD K5, K6, K6-II, K6-III and Via C3. i686 architecture processors |
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are Intel Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III; AMD Athlon, |
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Athlon XP and later. |
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3. Upgrading from previous releases should only be done on clean |
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machines without contribs or other modifications. |
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4. Testers are now encouraged to test upgrade paths and to start testing |
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contribs. They are not certain to work so only try on test servers. |
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Please raise all issues found in the bug tracker. |
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5. Some notes on on SME 8 including help on upgrades can be found at |
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http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8 |
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6. Please note it may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing, |
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during this time you may experience problems. |
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You can download SME8.0 Beta 7 from |
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http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/testing/8/iso/i386/ |
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or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8 |
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About SME Server |
About SME Server |
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Please visit http://wiki.contribs.org/Donate to donate. |
Please visit http://wiki.contribs.org/Donate to donate. |
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Thanks and a plea for help |
Thanks |
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The development team would like to thank all of those who have involved |
The development team would like to thank all of those who have involved |
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themselves with this beta release. At this stage in development the role |
themselves with this release. |
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of testers is vital; the final release date and the stability and |
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quality of the new version depend on full and thorough testing by all |
Notes |
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levels of users, right from beginners who may be confused by, and draw |
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the developers attention to, insufficiently transparent system design, |
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up to seasoned and skilled users who can probe the system deeply. Bug |
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triage and verification testing needs lots of community involvement; |
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please try to spare some time to this vital aspect of our community's |
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future. |
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This release, which is based on a major update of the Centos Core, |
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contains many new features. Please run Software Installer in Server |
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Manager regularly during testing to be sure your system reflects the |
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latest stage of development. |
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Major changes in beta 7 |
1. CentOS 5 has dropped support for i586 and therefore SME Server 8 |
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will not work on i586 hardware. [See bugzilla:2845]. i586 hardware |
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means processors before and including Intel Pentium, Pentium MMX; |
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AMD K5, K6, K6-II, K6-III and Via C3. i686 architecture processors |
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are Intel Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III; AMD Athlon, |
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Athlon XP and later. |
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2. Some notes on SME 8 including help on upgrades can be found at |
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http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8 |
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3. Please note it may take up to 48 hours for mirrors to finish syncing, |
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during this time you may experience problems. |
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You can download SME8.1 from |
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http://mirror.contribs.org/smeserver/releases/8/iso/i386/ |
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or for other methods see http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_8 |
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Major changes since 8.0 |
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* Require authentication for all emails, including local. |
* TBD |
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* Use ext4 instead of ext3 for filesystems (except for /boot). UNDER DISCUSSION |
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* LDAP authentication can be enabled, but is not on by default in this version, |
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once enabled it cannot be disabled, so experiment with care. |
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Changes in this release |
Changes in this release |
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This section of this README file lists all package changes carried out |
Packages altered by Centos, Redhat, and Fedora-associated developers are |
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by SME-associated developers since SME Server 8.0 Beta 6. |
not included. |
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The package changelogs often included earlier changes and changes |
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carried out by non-SME-associated developers; these were removed to |
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shorten the list. Packages recently altered by Centos, Redhat, and |
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Fedora-associated developers are not included. |
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Backups |
Backups |
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- Improve how Backup to Workstation handles full remote disks. |
- Add second sleep to fix MS Vista issues, patch by Terry Fage |
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- Localise the choices for 'Select the type of share for backup destination' in |
- Allow full backup to occur on Sunday |
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the Configure Workstation Backup panel |
- Console USB Backup, allow user setting of compression level |
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- Improve the wording of the 'Backup or restore' server-manager panel. |
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Replace term "USB disk" with "removable disk" as this is not restricted |
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to only USB disks. |
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- Improve wording of workstation backup email regarding the set number. |
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- Do not modify the workstation backup location 'SmbShare' during software update |
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- Include disk usage in Workstation Backup email. |
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- A new database property, OpenFilesLimit, allows customisation of |
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open_files_limit option in my.cnf. This can allow backups to succeed if a MySQL |
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database has a very large number of tables. |
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File Server |
File Server |
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- Change separator character in general Samba configuration file. |
- Revert previous change. |
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- Changes in Samba's "Recycle VFS exclude" syntax (for ibays). |
- Add ability to configure waiting for network Win7 registry option |
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- Create samba account during event for machine. |
- Remove samba_audit specific loglotate configuration |
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- Keep uid/gid for computer accounts in synch for Unix/Samba/LDAP. |
- Enable smb auditing per ibay |
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- Fixed syntax error in create-machine-account. |
- Update dependency to /usr/bin/tdbbackup12 |
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- Fix samba-group-mapping for users without group membership. |
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- Fix cpu critical patch missing ' |
LDAP (Optional in SME 8, and considered experimental) |
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- LDAP admin password needs to be loaded in secrets.tdb |
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Localisation |
Localisation |
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- Latest localisation updates applied. |
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Mail Server |
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- Require SMTP authentication by default when sending to an external address. |
- Always enable imap, listen on the loopback if disabled |
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- Fix TLS security defaults, TLS Ciphers for qpsmtpd can be configured. |
- Avoid use of unitialised variables in smtp migrate fragments |
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- Change enabled to transparent for mail proxy. |
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- Enable authentication for smtp traffic and migrate if necessary. |
- Allow blacklist of SMTP AUTH methods, replaces previous patch |
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- Fix pseudonym modification for "local network only" accounts. |
- Remove imap-relocate-maildirs action as obsolete and slow |
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- Add smtp auth into web interface, not just when enabled. |
- Don't use SSL over loopback |
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- Fix require_resolvable_fromhost doesn't work |
- Easier to read version of softlimit patch |
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- Fix qpsmtpd plugin fatal errors when incoming mail message has no headers. |
- More robust version of softlimit patch |
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- Serialize configure_peers to prevent errors. |
- Softlimit is now a database variable for pop3 and pop3s |
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- Change authentication from passwd/shadow files to the pam database. |
- Reverse change in Template Qmail MaxMessageSize |
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- New feature: Allow for individual configuration for the number of qmail |
- modify domain style pseudonyms to point to the correct user, by Filippo Carletti |
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logfiles. |
- Template Qmail MaxMessageSize |
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to the arguments of the plugin if defined, patch by Daniel |
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- Revert the 2.2.0-14 change and fix properly in e-smith-base |
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- tls ciphers defaults to disallow SSLv2 |
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- Reverse changes in 2.2.0-6 and fix how qpsmtpd tags spam email, codes by Charlie Brady |
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Server manager |
Server manager |
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- Enhance IP address syntax checking in remote access panel. |
- Do not load mod_ssl |
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- Correct processing of server-manager URL |
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- Fix more uninitialized warnings from HTML.pm, from Charlie Brady |
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- Remove log noise from Create starter web site panel |
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Webmail and Groupware |
Webmail and Groupware |
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- Update to Horde 3.3.11, imp 4.3.9, Ingo 1.2.5 & Turba 2.3.5 |
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- Add option to verify from address in webmail if setting up additional |
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identities. |
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- Turba searches on LDAP address book fixed. |
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Web Server |
Web Server |
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- Disable SSLv2 by default. |
- Disable index listing of Apache icons folder |
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Other fixes and updates |
Other fixes and updates |
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- Use ext4 instead of ext3 for filesystems (except for /boot) |
- Use UTF-8 in the console, by Daniel Berteaud |
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- Properly handle account with accents in first- or lastname with regards to LDAP. |
- Update ServerName (Samba netbios name) when SystemName is updated |
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- Only allow backup to (removable) storage media that are not read only. |
- Remove old System Name from the Hosts DB, by Charlie Brady |
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- Improve error handling when trying to install without NIC. |
- Prevent emailing about the normal, weekly, checks of RAID arrays, |
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- Only remove dangling symlinks in weak-updates directories. |
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- Fix create user gid parameter. |
- Fix init-account script when LDAP auth is enabled |
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- Path for gpasswd command fixed in "init-accounts" script. |
- Fix group creation/modification when LDAP auth is enabled |
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- Fix template-expansion for dhclient.conf. |
- Add_template_to_ssl.pem |
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- Improve validation (error) message for remote access setup. |
- Ensure existing_hwaddr is always initialized |
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- Change text in hostname and addresses panel for remote host (add FQDN). |
- In the console refer to removable media instead of USB disk |
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- Fix hostname editing for comments with double speechmarks |
- Optimize user-modify-unix script and link it in bootstrap-ldap-save |
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- Trap croak inside Net::IPv4Addr::ipv4_in_network to allow a FQDN to be inserted |
- Post-upgrades not fired after restore from console |
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in hostnames and addresses panel in lieu of an IP address. |
- Correction for when DB value is lower than MIN_MEMORY_LIMIT |
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- Add validator back for ip or cname entry. |
- Simplified patch after review comments |
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- All ibay account commands as system accounts in LDAP. |
- Updated previous patch to avoid migrate fragment |
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- Create ibay accounts as system accounts in LDAP. |
- Increase memory limit for pppoe to 100Mb |
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- Use cpu commands to manage Ibays accounts if ldap is master. |
- Template /etc/updatedb.conf |
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- Make cpu calls critical only with ldap{Auth} is enabled. |
- Make CipherSuite secure by default |
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- Check slapd.conf syntax before trying to dump the database. |
- D-root is changing its IPv4 address |
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- Simplify ldap-update call by calling ldif-fix |
- Wait for slapd to be ready before running bootstrap-ldap-save |
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- Change script order: ldap-update should be called after domain-group-maps. |
- Add missing dependency on openldap-servers |
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- LDAP ou field is taken from Dept not Department. |
- Fix removing old BDB log files |
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- LDAP chnages: Add rfc2739.schema back in and include in config. |
- Remove unused BDB log files |
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- Use ldapmodify to load ldif, add -a if no changetype. |
- Improve error checking in isValidIP |
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- Remove bogus junk attribute from ldif templates. |
- Prevent multiple instances of the masq script running, |
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- Change startup order for ldap. |
patch by Charlie Brady |
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- ldap should store locked passwords for expired passwords. |
- Force magic_quotes Off |
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- Correctly strip numbers from sql scripts |
- Ensure Deny from all is on its own line in 15LimitLOGIN |
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- Enable speedier time synchronisation for suspended VMs, this can be configured |
- Workaround a deficiency in the proftpd package where it doesn't |
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by a new db key for ntpd, SupportLargeDrift. |
handle long lines correctly in its configuration file. |
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- Obsolete KeepAlive and replace by ClientAliveInterval and ClientAliveCountMax |
Fix submitted by Charlie Brady |
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to prevent SSH sessions from being timed out by network inactivity. |
- Remove previous change |
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- New feature: Default Cipher to blowfish for ssh configuration. |
- Add VRoot engine to avoid pam log error |
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- Add directive "PersistentPasswd off" to proftpd configuration. |
- Add php53-* provides to provide compatibility |
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- Quota panel should allow non-integers but only accept uppercase units. |
- Obsolete php-domxml and php-dom |
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- Enable quotas on ext4 filesystems as well. |
- Update Obsoletes and Conflicts |
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- Radius should use LDAP backend (if LDAP auth is enabled). |
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General features |
General features |
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- Based on CentOS 5.6 and all available updates |
- Based on CentOS 5.9 and all available updates |
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$Id: README.txt,v 1.15 2012/05/22 07:46:08 wellsi Exp $ |
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$Id: README.txt,v 1.7 2010/07/15 07:58:07 wellsi Exp $ |
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