From 8adc22e3623a42c42e08d6080bef416091cae620 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Wayne Davison Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 22:35:41 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Mention the "munge symlinks" daemon setting. --- NEWS | 5 ++++- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS index 7380b073..2496fb7e 100644 --- a/NEWS +++ b/NEWS @@ -16,7 +16,7 @@ Changes since 2.6.8: of the module's path. These changes make a non-chroot daemon behave the same way as a chroot daemon with regard to symlinks, and also avoids a potential problem where a pre-existing symlink could have escaped the - module's hierarchy. + module's hierarchy. See also the new "munge symlinks" daemon setting. - Fixed an overzealous sanitizing bug in the handling of the --link-dest, --copy-dest, and --compare-dest options to a daemon without chroot: if @@ -72,6 +72,9 @@ Changes since 2.6.8: - Made "log file" and "syslog facility" settable on a per-module basis in the daemon's config file. + - Added the "munge symlinks" daemon setting to enable the old-style + tweaking of "unsafe" symlinks, regardless of how "use chroot" is set. + DEVELOPER RELATED: - The acls.diff and xattrs.diff patches have received a bunch of work to -- 2.34.1