From 3073d216bb95ab32078b9524c97114d281e4be78 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: bmah Date: Sat, 19 Jan 2002 13:02:32 +0000 Subject: New release notes: dc(4) supports VLANs, man(1) no longer SUID man, /etc/pam.d/. --- release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml | 17 +++++++++++++++++ release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 34 insertions(+) (limited to 'release') diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml index f99a3b9..2ab38e7 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/article.sgml @@ -493,6 +493,8 @@ The &man.dc.4; driver now supports NICs based on the Xircom 3201 and Conexant LANfinity RS7112 chips. + The &man.dc.4; driver now has support for VLANs. + The &man.de.4; driver now performs round-robin arbitration between the transmit and receive units of the 21143, instead of giving priority to the receive unit. This gives a 10–15% @@ -1940,6 +1942,16 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended CFLAGS in a relatively compiler-neutral manner. &merged; + &man.man.1; is no longer installed SUID + man, in order to reduce vulnerabilities + associated with generating catpages (preformatted + manual pages cached for repeated viewing). As a result, + &man.man.1; can no longer create system catpages on a regular + user's behalf. It is still able to do so if the user has write + permissions to the directory holding catpages (e.g. a user's own + manpages) or if the running user is + root. + The &man.mdmfs.8; command has been added; it is a wrapper around &man.mdconfig.8;, &man.disklabel.8;, &man.newfs.8;, and &man.mount.8; that mimics the command line option set of the @@ -2017,6 +2029,11 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended PAM support has been added for account management and sessions. + PAM configuration is now + specified by files in /etc/pam.d/, rather + than a single /etc/pam.conf file. + /etc/pam.d/README has more details. + &man.passwd.1; and &man.pw.8; now select the password hash algorithm at run time. See the passwd_format attribute in /etc/login.conf. &merged; diff --git a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml index f99a3b9..2ab38e7 100644 --- a/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml +++ b/release/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/relnotes/common/new.sgml @@ -493,6 +493,8 @@ The &man.dc.4; driver now supports NICs based on the Xircom 3201 and Conexant LANfinity RS7112 chips. + The &man.dc.4; driver now has support for VLANs. + The &man.de.4; driver now performs round-robin arbitration between the transmit and receive units of the 21143, instead of giving priority to the receive unit. This gives a 10–15% @@ -1940,6 +1942,16 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended CFLAGS in a relatively compiler-neutral manner. &merged; + &man.man.1; is no longer installed SUID + man, in order to reduce vulnerabilities + associated with generating catpages (preformatted + manual pages cached for repeated viewing). As a result, + &man.man.1; can no longer create system catpages on a regular + user's behalf. It is still able to do so if the user has write + permissions to the directory holding catpages (e.g. a user's own + manpages) or if the running user is + root. + The &man.mdmfs.8; command has been added; it is a wrapper around &man.mdconfig.8;, &man.disklabel.8;, &man.newfs.8;, and &man.mount.8; that mimics the command line option set of the @@ -2017,6 +2029,11 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended PAM support has been added for account management and sessions. + PAM configuration is now + specified by files in /etc/pam.d/, rather + than a single /etc/pam.conf file. + /etc/pam.d/README has more details. + &man.passwd.1; and &man.pw.8; now select the password hash algorithm at run time. See the passwd_format attribute in /etc/login.conf. &merged; -- cgit v1.1