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DB2 sys-auth 3.0.0.27 released

Sun, 10 May 2009

Bugs fixed:

  1. Backups were failing because the forked child had a copy of the parent's file handles. The outcall request took a while, during which time having the handles open lead to backups unable to obtain exclusive access and failing.
  2. On Linux, use getgrouplist instead of getgrent. This means a Samba/winbind setup that doesn't advertise to the grent interface still gets the user's groups.
  3. Stop thread-unsafe behavior between fork and exec, this prevents hangs seen doing a large number of grants.

Changes:

  1. Debug now goes to /tmp/sys-auth.debug. Syslog is no longer used. Conf file/setting is the same as before, just 0/1 is no debug, 2+ is all debug.

—Seth Ellsworth

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