New release notes: dc(4) supports VLANs, man(1) no longer SUID man,

/etc/pam.d/.
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Bruce A. Mah 2002-01-19 13:02:32 +00:00
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<para>The &man.dc.4; driver now supports NICs based on the Xircom
3201 and Conexant LANfinity RS7112 chips.</para>
<para>The &man.dc.4; driver now has support for VLANs.</para>
<para>The &man.de.4; driver now performs round-robin arbitration
between the transmit and receive units of the 21143, instead of
giving priority to the receive unit. This gives a 10&ndash;15%
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<varname>CFLAGS</varname> in a relatively compiler-neutral
manner. &merged;</para>
<para>&man.man.1; is no longer installed SUID
<username>man</username>, in order to reduce vulnerabilities
associated with generating <quote>catpages</quote> (preformatted
manual pages cached for repeated viewing). As a result,
&man.man.1; can no longer create system catpages on a regular
user's behalf. It is still able to do so if the user has write
permissions to the directory holding catpages (e.g. a user's own
manpages) or if the running user is
<username>root</username>.</para>
<para>The &man.mdmfs.8; command has been added; it is a wrapper
around &man.mdconfig.8;, &man.disklabel.8;, &man.newfs.8;, and
&man.mount.8; that mimics the command line option set of the
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<para><application>PAM</application> support has been added for
account management and sessions.</para>
<para><application>PAM</application> configuration is now
specified by files in <filename>/etc/pam.d/</filename>, rather
than a single <filename>/etc/pam.conf</filename> file.
<filename>/etc/pam.d/README</filename> has more details.</para>
<para>&man.passwd.1; and &man.pw.8; now select the password hash
algorithm at run time. See the <literal>passwd_format</literal>
attribute in <filename>/etc/login.conf</filename>. &merged;</para>

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<para>The &man.dc.4; driver now supports NICs based on the Xircom
3201 and Conexant LANfinity RS7112 chips.</para>
<para>The &man.dc.4; driver now has support for VLANs.</para>
<para>The &man.de.4; driver now performs round-robin arbitration
between the transmit and receive units of the 21143, instead of
giving priority to the receive unit. This gives a 10&ndash;15%
@ -1940,6 +1942,16 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<varname>CFLAGS</varname> in a relatively compiler-neutral
manner. &merged;</para>
<para>&man.man.1; is no longer installed SUID
<username>man</username>, in order to reduce vulnerabilities
associated with generating <quote>catpages</quote> (preformatted
manual pages cached for repeated viewing). As a result,
&man.man.1; can no longer create system catpages on a regular
user's behalf. It is still able to do so if the user has write
permissions to the directory holding catpages (e.g. a user's own
manpages) or if the running user is
<username>root</username>.</para>
<para>The &man.mdmfs.8; command has been added; it is a wrapper
around &man.mdconfig.8;, &man.disklabel.8;, &man.newfs.8;, and
&man.mount.8; that mimics the command line option set of the
@ -2017,6 +2029,11 @@ options HZ=1000 # not compulsory but strongly recommended</programlisting>
<para><application>PAM</application> support has been added for
account management and sessions.</para>
<para><application>PAM</application> configuration is now
specified by files in <filename>/etc/pam.d/</filename>, rather
than a single <filename>/etc/pam.conf</filename> file.
<filename>/etc/pam.d/README</filename> has more details.</para>
<para>&man.passwd.1; and &man.pw.8; now select the password hash
algorithm at run time. See the <literal>passwd_format</literal>
attribute in <filename>/etc/login.conf</filename>. &merged;</para>