Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 13:02:02 -0400 (EDT) From: Gregory A Lundberg To: WU-FTPD Discussion List Subject: Current fixes for BETA 17 This is my current list of fixes for BETA 17. Some of them you may have seen before, some are new. Below is the FIXES files included in the patch. ---- This is a list of fixes to BETA 17 from lundberg@vr.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The CD command supports ~ but gives errors when just ~ is found. The patch fixes this for the CD command. Note: there are still problems with other commands which may or may not accept tilde-user notation and may or may not understand a tilde by itself means the current user's home directory. This only effects chroot'd users. From patches submitted to the mailing list by mikedoug@texas.net and lundberg@vr.net on Nov 16, 1997. Prevent NOOP resetting idle timer. From a patch submitted to the mailing list by gwynp@artware.qc.ca on Feb 4, 1998. Add -X command-line option and syslog option to log statement in ftpaccess. These options eliminate xferlog output and direct transfer logs to syslog instead. From a patch posted to the mailing list by sinder@thp.Uni-Koeln.DE on Mar 12, 1998. Corrected and cleaned up during testing. Somewhere along the way the upload statement was broken. The fix adds a new parameter to upload so admins can determine the permissions for any new directories permitted. New features are documented in ftpaccess manpage. >From original patches submitted to the mailing list by achurch@dragonfire.net and kir@rus.net on Apr 29, 1998. Move Linux to use POSIX regex included with the system instead of the routines included with wu-ftpd. This allows us to define path-filter statements which allow spaces in the pathnames. For example: path-filter anonymous /etc/pathmsg ^[-A-Za-z0-9_.[:space:]]*$ ^\. ^- >From a patch submitted to the mailing list by mats.petersson@mbox301.swipnet.se on Apr 30, 1998. Added 'hostname' configuration statement. Normally the server determines its host name from the system. This allows the admin to set the name on machines with several names (multihomed) where the default name is not the desired name. Manpage updated. Discovered in testing. Shutdown warnings were not given to normal (non-anonymous) users on login. Discovered in testing. ---- Gregory A Lundberg Senior Partner, VRnet Company 1441 Elmdale Drive lundberg@vr.net Kettering, OH 45409-1615 USA 1-800-809-2195