Date: Wed, 3 Jun 1998 13:02:02 -0400 (EDT)
From: Gregory A Lundberg <[email protected]>
To: WU-FTPD Discussion List <[email protected]>
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.

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This is a list of fixes to BETA 17 from [email protected]
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The CD command supports ~<username> 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 [email protected] and [email protected] on Nov 16, 1997.

Prevent NOOP resetting idle timer.  From a patch submitted to the mailing
list by [email protected] 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 [email protected]
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 [email protected]
and [email protected] 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 [email protected]
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.

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Gregory A Lundberg              Senior Partner, VRnet Company
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