--- embedaddon/sudo/NEWS 2013/07/22 10:46:10 1.1.1.4 +++ embedaddon/sudo/NEWS 2013/10/14 07:56:33 1.1.1.5 @@ -1,3 +1,79 @@ +What's new in Sudo 1.8.8? + + * Removed a warning on PAM systems with stacked auth modules + where the first module on the stack does not succeed. + + * Sudo, sudoreplay and visudo now support GNU-style long options. + + * The -h (--host) option may now be used to specify a host name. + This is currently only used by the sudoers plugin in conjunction + with the -l (--list) option. + + * Program usage messages and manual SYNOPSIS sections have been + simplified. + + * Sudo's LDAP SASL support now works properly with Kerberos. + Previously, the SASL library was unable to locate the user's + credential cache. + + * It is now possible to set the nproc resource limit to unlimited + via pam_limits on Linux (bug #565). + + * New "pam_service" and "pam_login_service" sudoers options + that can be used to specify the PAM service name to use. + + * New "pam_session" and "pam_setcred" sudoers options that + can be used to disable PAM session and credential support. + + * The sudoers plugin now properly supports UIDs and GIDs + that are larger than 0x7fffffff on 32-bit platforms. + + * Fixed a visudo bug introduced in sudo 1.8.7 where per-group + Defaults entries would cause an internal error. + + * If the "tty_tickets" sudoers option is enabled (the default), + but there is no tty present, sudo will now use a ticket file + based on the parent process ID. This makes it possible to support + the normal timeout behavior for the session. + + * Fixed a problem running commands that change their process + group and then attempt to change the terminal settings when not + running the command in a pseudo-terminal. Previously, the process + would receive SIGTTOU since it was effectively a background + process. Sudo will now grant the child the controlling tty and + continue it when this happens. + + * The "closefrom_override" sudoers option may now be used in + a command-specified Defaults entry (bug #610). + + * Sudo's BSM audit support now works on Solaris 11. + + * Brazilian Portuguese translation for sudo and sudoers from + translationproject.org. + + * Czech translation for sudo from translationproject.org. + + * French translation for sudo from translationproject.org. + + * Sudo's noexec support on Mac OS X 10.4 and above now uses dynamic + symbol interposition instead of setting DYLD_FORCE_FLAT_NAMESPACE=1 + which causes issues with some programs. + + * Fixed visudo's -q (--quiet) flag, broken in sudo 1.8.6. + + * Root may no longer change its SELinux role without entering + a password. + + * Fixed a bug introduced in Sudo 1.8.7 where the indexes written + to the I/O log timing file are two greater than they should be. + Sudoreplay now contains a work-around to parse those files. + + * In sudoreplay's list mode, the "this" qualifier in "fromdate" + or "todate" expressions now behaves more sensibly. Previously, + it would often match a date that was "one more" than expected. + For example, "this week" now matches the current week instead + of the following week. + What's new in Sudo 1.8.7? * The non-Unix group plugin is now supported when sudoers data @@ -18,7 +94,7 @@ What's new in Sudo 1.8.7? run the command without read access to the terminal when running a command in a pseudo-tty. If the command tries to read from the terminal it will be stopped by the kernel (via SIGTTIN or - SIGTTOU) and sudo will immediately restart it as the forground + SIGTTOU) and sudo will immediately restart it as the foreground process (if possible). This allows sudo to only pass terminal input to the program if the program actually is expecting it. Unfortunately, a few poorly-behaved programs (like "su" on most @@ -37,15 +113,15 @@ What's new in Sudo 1.8.7? determined. Legal values are "static" (use the kernel groups list), "dynamic" (perform a group database query) and "adaptive" (only perform a group database query if the kernel list is full). - The "max_groups" specifies the maximum number of groups a user may - belong to when performing a group database query. + The "max_groups" setting specifies the maximum number of groups + a user may belong to when performing a group database query. * The sudo.conf file now supports line continuation by using a backslash as the last character on the line. * There is now a standalone sudo.conf manual page. - * Sudo now stores its libexec files in a "sudo" subdirectory instead + * Sudo now stores its libexec files in a "sudo" sub-directory instead of in libexec itself. For backwards compatibility, if the plugin is not found in the default plugin directory, sudo will check the parent directory if the default directory ends in "/sudo".