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Date: 2004-11-22 12:13:05
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Linux-Announce Digest #959, Volume #4 Mon, 22 Nov 2004 12:13:05 EST
Contents:
FLOSS guide... ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
Lineox Releases Enterprise Linux 4.0 Beta (Raimo Koski)
Radius 1.3 released. (fwd) ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
GNU Go 3.6 (fwd) ("Frederick Noronha (FN)")
[ADMIN] comp.os.linux.announce report for Mon Nov 22 00:05:01 CST 2004 (cola-admin@stump.algebra.com)
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Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 11:31:45 CST
From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: FLOSS guide...
========== Forwarded message ==========
Hey Folks,
I'm pleased to announce a new resource: the Open Source Guide for eRiders.
This guide is for eRiders who would like to start implementing open source
software projects with NGO's. The guide is also a place for eRiders that are
implementing Open Source projects to submit resources and information that
they've found helpful. The guide was concieved at the Summer Source Camp in
Vis, Croatia in September, 2003.
It can be found at http://www.eriders.net/resources/opensource2/
Dirk Slater
Senior Circuit Rider
LINC Project - Welfare Law Center
www.lincproject.org
dirk@welfarelaw.org
212-633-6967 ext.22
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Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 11:41:18 CST
From: Raimo Koski <rk@raimokoski.com>
Subject: Lineox Releases Enterprise Linux 4.0 Beta
Lineox Releases Enterprise Linux 4.0 Beta
Nov. 21. 2004
Lineox Enterprise Linux 4.0 (LEL) Beta is built from the Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 4.0 (RHEL) Beta 2 sources. Some source files were
modified by a set of scripts and the whole build process is script
based. The usage of scripts means that when the final RHEL 4.0 sources
are released, the same scripts can be used to build LEL 4.0 in a very
short time. The script which starts the package builds is cluster
enabled, which further expedites the build speed. Lineox hopes to have
the first LEL 4.0 release candidate ready and available for download
from mirror sites in less than two days after RHEL 4.0 source
availability.
The purpose of this beta is to check that all the needed changes are
made and they are made correctly.
Availability
Lineox Enterprise Linux 4.0 Beta is available immediately for x86
architecture and x86_64 architecture version should be ready within a
couple of days. See the address
http://www.raimokoski.com/pub/lineox/4.0B2/i386/iso/ for DVD and CD
image files.
About Lineox
Before starting Lineox in 2003, Lineox founders have authored Linux
books in Finnish, the first one in 1995 with Slackware and Red Hat on
CD, and Finnish localized Linux distributions starting from 1998.
Their first Linux distribution aimed at international markets was
Spectra Linux 1.1 in 2002, followed by 1.2, which added installation
manual in English.
# # #
Linux is a trademark of Linus Torvalds in the U.S.A. and other
countries. Lineox is not affiliated with Red Hat, Inc. or Red Hat
Linux. Red Hat Linux is a registered trademark of Red Hat, Inc. All
other product names, service marks, and trademarks mentioned herein
are trademarks of their respective owners.
--
Raimo Koski http://www.lineox.com/ http://www.raimokoski.com/
Århusinkatu 3 A 36, 20320 Turku, Finland, Tel. +358 (0)2 2361 141
Mobile +358 (0)2 2361 141 (6. alert tone is switched to mobile)
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Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 11:42:43 CST
From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: Radius 1.3 released. (fwd)
========== Forwarded message ==========
Hello,
I am pleased to announce the release of GNU Radius 1.3.
GNU Radius is a set of tools for remote user authentication and accounting.
The package includes server daemon, various client utilities, and a set of
administrator tools.
For more information on Radius, including links to file downloads,
please see the Radius web page: http://www.gnu.org/software/radius
and the Radius project page http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/radius.
GNU Radius is available from ftp://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/radius and
the mirror sites worldwide (see http://www.gnu.org/order/ftp.html
for the list of those).
The MD5 checksums of the files are:
8bf4ebdc94415d8a25949b12aa04a337 radius-1.3.tar.bz2
ab0223f6504355c4827a7c03cb4e21b0 radius-1.3.tar.gz
The list of user-visible changes follows:
* Important compatibility note.
Previous versions of GNU Radius were silently adding an NAS-IP-Address
attribute/value pair to any requests lacking it. Whereas such behavior
is sometimes useful, it is not always needed. Therefore, the new
version of GNU Radius does not automatically add this attribute.
Instead, a rewrite rule is provided for this purpose. The default
raddb/hints file is shipped with this rule enabled. If you are
upgrading from a previously installed version of GNU Radius, you might
wish to add the following rule to the very beginning of your
'raddb/hints':
DEFAULT Rewrite-Function = restore_nas_ip
Fall-Through = Yes
If you chose to do so, add the following statement to the "rewrite"
section of 'raddb/config':
load "nas-ip.rw";
* radiusd
** New constructs in dictionary file
*** BEGIN VENDOR blocks.
These simplify declaration of vendor-specific attributes. Instead of
explicitely specifying vendor name for each VSA, you can enclose all
related declarations in BEGIN VENDOR statement:
BEGIN VENDOR Unix 4
....
END
An alternative form BEGIN-VENDOR ... END-VENDOR is supported for
compatibility with FreeRadius
*** Specifying - (dash) for non-VSA attributes that have syntax flags
specifications is no longer obligatory.
** Improved checking for multiple logins. Previous versions relied entirely
on the contents of /var/log/radutmp file. Starting at this version,
radiusd offers at least two methods of checking for multiple logins:
using the traditional radutmp file and using the SQL database. New
keywords has been added to the sqlserver file that declare the SQL
queries to be used when retrieving information about currently
active sessions.
More methods of checking will be added in future versions.
** New methods of querying the NASes about active user sessions: using
guile function and using an external program.
** When an unsupported authentication type is requested, radiusd first
checks if an extension Scheme module is provided that handles that
authentication type. If such module is found, it is invoked to handle
the authentication.
** System accounting can be turned off by specifying `system no;' in
`acct' section of raddb/config.
** New configuration statement 'load-module' allows to load arbitrary
Scheme modules.
** The file names of detailed log files are configurable via `detail-file-name'
statements in `auth' and `acct' sections of raddb/config.
** Support for Guile versions prior to 1.6 has been withdrawn.
** Implemented support for locking user accounts based on the number
of authentication failures:
*** New attribute Auth-Failure-Trigger specifies an external program or
a Scheme expression to be run upon an authentication failure. It can
update failure counts that subsequently will be used by
Exec-Program-Wait or Scheme-Procedure.
*** New keywords auth_success_query and auth_failure_query set
SQL queries to be executed upon authentication success and failure,
respectively. These may maintain failure counts, that can be
used by group_query to control the authentication.
** Rewrite-Function attributes are handled uniformly in hints and
huntgroups. First, the Rewrite-Function attributes from the RHS list
are processed, then the ones from the LHS list. Notice, that in
contrast with the previous versions, any number of Rewrite-Function
attributes is allowed in both lists.
* SQL support has been modified to use dynamic loading. This allows
for easy integration of third-party SQL drivers. All existing SQL
drivers are now built as loadable modules on systems that support
dynamic loading. You may still compile them statically by giving
--disable-shared option to configure.
* Rewrite language
** Added i18n support
** New built-in functions:
*** Functions to access internal fields of a RADIUS request.
*** Interfaces to the Radius NAS database (raddb/naslist).
*** Interfaces to DNS lookup functions.
* libgnuradius
This is a library of functions for creation, handling and sending
requests using RADIUS protocol.
All programs have been rewritten to link with libgnuradius. On most
sites this will mean linking against a shared library, which will
reduce the size of the executables.
* gnuradius.scm
This is a guile module allowing to use libgnuradius functions. It
supersedes radscm program, which has been removed.
* Radtest
The utility is rewritten from scratch. Now it provides a simple yet
powerful scripting language useful for writing RADIUS client applications.
* New contributions added to contrib/ directory:
php A php module for interfacing with Radius
passcvt Converts system password database to Radius SQL
table on systems with shadow password file (e.g.
GNU/Linux)
passwd_to_db Converts system password database to Radius SQL
table on Free-BSD
radsend Simplified interface to radtest utility
See README files in corresponding directories.
* Testsuite rewritten in autotest. This allows to run it on almost
any platform.
* Bugfixes
** Allow to omit port numbers in `listen' statements (raddb/config), as
described in the documentation.
** Fixed several inconsistencies in parsing Ascend-Data-Filter and
Ascend-Call-Filter attributes.
** Fixed bugs in SNMP library (CAN-2004-0849)
** Do not use descriptors 0 and 1 for interprocess communications since
user-defined procedures and/or libraries may attempt to write to
stdout and thus interfere in the communication.
** Fixed 'forward' statement in `acct' block. It was incorrectly
enabling forwarding of authentication requests, instead of accounting
ones.
========
Regards,
Sergey
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http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu
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From: "Frederick Noronha (FN)" <fred@bytesforall.org>
Subject: GNU Go 3.6 (fwd)
Date: Sun, 21 Nov 2004 13:23:10 CST
========== Forwarded message ==========
GNU Go 3.6 is now available at ftp.gnu.org.
New in 3.6 (since 3.4):
- stronger than 3.4
- many small improvements
- GNU Go can now resign games
- emacs mode can display the board graphically using xpms
- basic knowledge of how to break out of mirror go
Daniel Bump
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GNU Announcement mailing list <info-gnu@gnu.org>
http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/info-gnu
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Date: Mon, 22 Nov 2004 00:06:03 CST
Subject: [ADMIN] comp.os.linux.announce report for Mon Nov 22 00:05:01 CST 2004
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Subject: comp.os.linux.announce report for Mon Nov 22 00:05:01 CST 2004
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
Date: Mon Nov 22 00:05:01 CST 2004
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