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Cfengine recent changes highlights

Cfengine 1.5.0 will compile and run on NT with the GNU cygwin32 software installed
Security Detection of suspicious filenames. SuspiciousName = ( list )
. Input file ownership/permission check if SecureInput = ( on )
. checksum=md5 option in files giving Tripwire functionality
. secure=true option in copy gives 3DES encryption. Why do you want this?!
. root=host,secure=true options in cfd determine whether remote clients have (read only) access to private users' files (similar to nobody mapping in NFS), but applies on a file-by-file basis.
New options Better pattern matching in processes
. Options owner= group= in shellcommands to set uid
. stealth= in copy, to preserve atime of source
. type=mtime in copy
. stealth= in copy, to preserve atime of source
. DefaultCopyType in control, sets for all subsequent copies
. unmount options for preserving fstab
New possibilities Assign variables to output of shell command
. Support for multiple network interfaces
BUGS Berkeley db stuff fixed for new db 2
. Give up for now on interface config. It's all going to hell...

Mark Burgess
Last modified: Tue May 25 14:10:29 MET DST 1999