- generation of SHA encrypted passwords (chpasswd, gpasswd, newusers,
chgpasswd; and also passwd if configured without PAM support).
The number of rounds and number of salt bytes was fixed to their lower
allowed values (resp. configurable and 8), hence voiding some of the
advantages of this encryption method. Dictionary attacks with
precomputed tables were easier than expected, but still harder than with
the MD5 (or DES) methods.
* NEWS, libmisc/salt.c (SHA_salt_size): Seed the RNG, and fix a
overflow. These caused the SHA salt size to always be 8 bytes,
instead of being in the 8-16 range. Thanks to Peter Vrabec
pvrabec@redhat.com for noticing.
* NEWS, libmisc/salt.c (SHA_salt_rounds): Seed the RNG with
seedRNG instead of srand, and fix the same overflow. This caused
the number of rounds to always be the smallest one.
* libmisc/pam_pass.c: Be more verbose and indicate that the
password was not changed when pam_chauthtok fails (in addition to
the PAM error, which may not be comprehensible for the users).
SIGSTOP handling. Raise the signal which stopped the child instead
of always SIGSTOP.
Import Debian patch 406_vipw_resume_properly.
Thanks to Dean Gaudet.
* NEWS, src/vipw.c: Resume properly after ^Z.
Files with no license use the default 3-clauses BSD license. The copyright
were mostly not recorded; they were updated according to the Changelog.
"Julianne Frances Haugh and contributors" changed to "copyright holders
and contributors".
endpwend() sequences (ditto for getgrent(), getspent(), and
getsgent()). The only real (minor) issue was in login, which kept
the passwd file open.
* libmisc/entry.c: Remove unneeded setspent() and endspent() (only
getspnam is called in the middle).
* libmisc/find_new_ids.c: Make sure to close the password and
group files with endpwent() and endgrent().
* libmisc/pwdcheck.c: Remove unneeded endspent() (only getspnam()
is called before).
* src/lastlog.c, src/passwd.c, src/groupmod.c, src/faillog.c,
src/groups.c: Make sure to close
the password file with endpwent().
* src/login.c: Remove unneeded setpwent() (only xgetpwnam is
called before).
* src/login.c, src/newgrp.c: Fix typos in comments.
Fail if the feature is requested but the library (or
header file) could not be found. If nothing is specified, enable
the feature only if we can find the library (or header file).
$(pamd_files). Remove the duplicate useradd. And sort
alphabetically. Thanks to Mark Rosenstand <mark@borkware.net>.
* NEWS: Prepare next release, 4.1.2.
