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authorRuss Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>2008-01-19 01:19:15 +0000
committerRuss Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>2008-01-19 01:19:15 +0000
commitb4f2b5bf10e32777b1fcfa8417aa190755247815 (patch)
tree86edfe86ae8b0816993ffbcc275fd53d6b9729f9 /NEWS
parent71e7dc74a057cfa4dc288d0bc7be0e0f332dcb44 (diff)
Note that the file writing change is a security issue.
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@@ -2,6 +2,11 @@
wallet 0.6 (unreleased)
+ SECURITY: If -f is used and the output file name with ".new" appended
+ already exists, unlink it first and then create it safely rather than
+ truncating it. This is much safer when creating files in a
+ world-writable directory.
+
The wallet client can now get the server, port, principal, and remctl
type from krb5.conf as well as from compile-time defaults and
command-line options.
@@ -14,11 +19,6 @@ wallet 0.6 (unreleased)
keytab keys into that file rather than moving aside the old keytab and
creating a new keytab with only the new keys.
- If -f is used and the output file name with ".new" appended already
- exists, unlink it first and then create it safely rather than
- truncating it. This is much safer when creating files in a
- world-writable directory.
-
Support enforcing a naming policy for wallet objects via a Perl
function in the wallet server configuration file.