X-Git-Url: https://git.wh0rd.org/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=CHANGES;h=7c1973a635a76470a6a5741f5b93fa84e4419eb2;hb=dc8d1876884d2589a5ab5edf5d9d677dd8def9b7;hp=d098293dd93110702489f879c8156df787541b0d;hpb=fa58b58da39e4a6c96e34734539d3169dbdf4210;p=dump.git diff --git a/CHANGES b/CHANGES index d098293..7c1973a 100644 --- a/CHANGES +++ b/CHANGES @@ -1,7 +1,23 @@ -$Id: CHANGES,v 1.8 1999/10/22 18:12:25 tiniou Exp $ +$Id: CHANGES,v 1.14 1999/11/07 18:53:33 tiniou Exp $ -Changes between versions 0.4b7 and 0.4b8 (released ???????????????) -=================================================================== +Changes between versions 0.4b9 and 0.4b10 (released ???????????????) +==================================================================== + +1. Make configure test if the system glob routines support + extended syntax (ALTDIRFUNC). If not, use the internal glob + routines instead of system ones. + +Changes between versions 0.4b8 and 0.4b9 (released November 5, 1999) +==================================================================== + +1. Use lchown instead of chown, fixing a possible security problem + when restoring symlinks (a malicious user could use this + to deliberately corrupt the ownership of important system files). + Thanks to Chris Siebenmann for detecting + this and providing the patch. + +Changes between versions 0.4b7 and 0.4b8 (released November 3, 1999) +==================================================================== 1. Put dump sources under CVS, added Id tags in all files so one can use 'ident' on binary files. @@ -17,6 +33,19 @@ Changes between versions 0.4b7 and 0.4b8 (released ???????????????) contain them :(. Thanks to Eric Maisonobe for submitting the bug report. +5. Use ext2fs_llseek instead of llseek. With recent e2fsprogs + this should enable dumping big (huge) filesystems. + +6. Added the RSH environment variable in order to be able to + use a rsh replacement like ssh when doing remote backups (and + bypass the security limitations of rcmd). Now you can do remote + backups without being root (or making dump setuid root). + +7. Modified again the way dumpdates works. For incremental dumps, + we need to read dumpdates even if we are not using 'u' option. + Thanks to Bdale Garbee for his ideas on how + this should work. + Changes between versions 0.4b6 and 0.4b7 (released October 8, 1999) ===================================================================