1 Linux-PAM NEWS -- history of user-visible changes.
5 * pam_cracklib: Add more checks for weak passwords
6 * pam_lastlog: Never lock out root
7 * Lot of bug fixes and smaller enhancements
11 * pam_env: Fix CVE-2011-3148 and CVE-2011-3149
12 * pam_access: Add hostname resolution cache
13 * Documentation: Improvements/fixes
18 * Add vietnamese translation
19 * pam_namepace: Add new functionality
20 * pam_securetty: Honour console= kernel option, add noconsole option
21 * pam_limits: Add %group syntax, drop change_uid option, add set_all option
22 * Lot of small bug fixes
23 * Lot of compiler warnings fixed
24 * Add support for libtirpc
29 * pam_namespace: Clean environment for childs (CVE-2010-3853)
30 * libpam: New interface to drop/regain privilegs
31 * Drop root privilegs in pam_env, pam_mail and pam_xauth before
32 accessing user files (CVE-2010-3430, CVE-2010-3431)
33 * pam_unix: Add minlen option, change default from 6 to 0
34 * Documentation improvements
35 * Lot of small bug fixes
39 * pam_unix: Add minlen= option
40 * pam_group: Add support for UNIX groups beside netgroups
41 * pam_tally: Document that it is deprecated
42 * pam_rootok: Add support for chauthtok and acct_mgmt
48 * pam_access: Revert netgroup match to original behavior, add new
49 syntax for adding the local hostname to netgroup match
50 * libpam: Add new functions pam_get_authtok_noverify() and
51 pam_get_authtok_verify()
52 * Add sepermit.conf.5 manual page
58 * Documentation updates and fixes
63 * pam_succeed_if: Use provided username
64 * pam_mkhomedir: Fix handling of options
68 * Fixed CVE-2009-0579 (minimum days limit on password change is ignored).
69 * Fix libpam internal config/argument parser
70 * Add optional file locking to pam_tally2
72 * pam_access improvements
73 * Changes in the behavior of the password stack. Results of PRELIM_CHECK
74 are not used for the final run.
78 * Supply hostname of the machine to netgroup match call in pam_access
79 * Make pam_namespace to work safe on child directories of parent directories
81 * Redefine LOCAL keyword of pam_access configuration file
82 * Add support for try_first_pass and use_first_pass to pam_cracklib
83 * Print informative messages for rejected login and add silent and
84 no_log_info options to pam_tally
85 * Add support for passing PAM_AUTHTOK to stdin of helpers from pam_exec
86 * New password quality tests in pam_cracklib
87 * New options for pam_lastlog to show last failed login attempt and
88 to disable lastlog update
89 * New pam_pwhistory module to store last used passwords
90 * New pam_tally2 module similar to pam_tally with wordsize independent
92 * Make libpam not log missing module if its type is prepended with '-'
93 * New pam_timestamp module for authentication based on recent successful
95 * Add blowfish support to pam_unix.
96 * Add support for user specific environment file to pam_env.
97 * Add pam_get_authtok to libpam as Linux-PAM extension.
98 * Rename type option of pam_cracklib to authtok_type.
102 * Small bug fix release
107 * Regression fixed in pam_selinux
108 * Problem with big UIDs fixed in pam_loginuid
113 * Regression fixed in pam_set_item()
119 * Translation updates
124 * New substack directive in config file syntax.
125 * New module pam_tty_audit.so for enabling and disabling tty
127 * New PAM items PAM_XDISPLAY and PAM_XAUTHDATA.
128 * Auditing login denials based by origin (pam_access), time (pam_time),
129 and number of sessions (pam_limits) to the Linux audit subsystem.
130 * Support sha256 and sha512 algorithms in pam_unix when they are supported
132 * New pam_sepermit.so module for allowing/rejecting access based on
134 * Improved functionality of pam_namespace.so module (method flags,
135 namespace.d configuration directory, new options).
136 * Finaly removed deprecated pam_rhosts_auth module.
141 * misc_conv no longer blocks SIGINT; applications that don't want
142 user-interruptable prompts should block SIGINT themselves
143 * Merge fixes from Debian
144 * Fix parser for pam_group and pam_time
149 * Fix a regression in audit code introduced with last release
150 * Fix compiling with --disable-nls
155 * Add translations for ar, ca, da, ru, sv and zu.
156 * Update hungarian translation.
157 * Add support for limits.d directory to pam_limits.
158 * Improve pam_namespace module tobe more useful
159 for MLS, fixed crash with bad config files.
160 * Improve pam_selinux module to be more useful
162 * Add minclass option to pam_cracklib
163 * Add new group syntax to pam_access
168 * Security fix for pam_unix.so (CVE-2007-0003).
173 * Add manual page for pam_unix.so.
174 * Add pam_faildelay module to set pam_fail_delay() value.
175 * Fix possible seg.fault in libpam/pam_set_data().
176 * Cleanup of configure options.
177 * Update hungarian translation, fix german translation.
182 * pam_loginuid: New PAM module.
183 * pam_access, pam_succeed_if: Support passwd and session services.
188 * pam_lastlog: Don't refuse login if lastlog file got lost.
189 * pam_cracklib: Fix a user triggerable crash.
190 * documentation: Regenerate with fixed docbook stylesheet.
195 * Fix bootstrapping problems.
196 * Bug fixes: pam_keyinit, pam_umask
201 * pam_namespace: Code cleanup, add init script to tar archive.
202 * pam_succeed_if: Add support for service match.
203 * Add xtests (to run after installation).
204 * Documentation: Convert sgml guides to XML, unify documentation
205 for PAM functions and modules.
210 * pam_tally: Fix support for large UIDs
211 * Fixed all problems found by Coverity
212 * Add support for Intel C Compiler
213 * Add manual page for pam_mkhomedir, pam_umask, pam_filter,
214 pam_issue, pam_ftp, pam_group, pam_lastlog, pam_listfile,
215 pam_localuser, pam_mail, pam_motd, pam_nologin, pam_permit,
216 pam_rootok, pam_securetty, pam_shells, pam_userdb, pam_warn,
217 pam_time, pam_limits, pam_debug, pam_tally
218 * The libpam memory debug code was removed
219 * pam_keyinit: New module to initialise kernel session keyring.
220 * pam_namespace: New module to configure private namespace for a session.
221 * pam_rhosts: New module which replaces pam_rhosts_auth, now IPv6 capable.
222 * pam_rhosts_auth: This module is now deprecated.
228 * Fix building of static variants of libpam, libpamc and libpam_misc
229 * pam_listfile: Add support for password and session management
230 * pam_exec: New PAM module to execute arbitary commands
231 * Fix building of a static libpam including all PAM modules
232 * New/updated translations for: nl, pt, pl, fi, km, tr, uk, fr
233 * pam_access: Add network(address) / netmask and IPv6 support
234 * Add manual pages for pam_cracklib, pam_deny and pam_access
235 * pam_pwdb: This deprecated module was removed
236 * Manual pages: Major rewrite/cleanup
241 * Fix NULL pointer checks in libpam.so
242 * pam_succeed_if, pam_group, pam_time: Support netgroup matching
243 * New translations for: nb, hu, fi, de, es, fr, it, ja, pt_BR, zh_CN, zh_TW
244 * Audit PAM calls if Linux Audit is available
245 * Compile upperLOWER and unix_chkpwd as PIE binaries
250 * Fix install of PS, PDF, TXT and HTML files
251 * pam_mail: Update README
253 * pam_modutil_getlogin: Fix parsing of PAM_TTY variable
258 * Fix parsing of full path tty name in various modules
259 * pam_xauth: Look for xauth executable in multiple places
260 * pam_unix: Disable user check in unix_chkpwd only if real uid
261 is 0 (CVE-2005-2977). Log failed password check attempt.
262 * pam_env: Support /etc/environment again, but don't treat it as
263 error if it is missing.
264 * pam_userdb: Fix memory leak.
269 * Use autoconf/automake/libtool
270 * Add gettext support
271 * Add translations for cs, de, es, fr, hu, it, ja, nb, pa, pt_BR,
273 * libpam: Remove pam_authenticate_secondary stub
274 * libpam: Add pam_prompt,pam_vprompt,pam_error,pam_verror,pam_info
275 and pam_vinfo functions for use by modules as extension
276 * libpam: Add pam_syslog function for unified syslog messages from
278 * libpam: Moved functions from pammodutil to libpam
279 * pam_umask: New module for setting umask from GECOS field, /etc/login.defs
280 or /etc/default/login
281 * pam_echo: New PAM module for message output
282 * pam_userdb: Fix regression (crash when crypt param not specified)
283 * pam_limits: Fix regression from RLIMIT_NICE support (wrong limit
284 values for other limits are applied)
285 * pam_access: Support for NULL tty - matches ALL and NONE keywords
286 * pam_lastlog: Enable log to wtmp by default. Add "nowtmp" option
287 * pam_radius: This module was removed