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GNU inetutils 1.5 released posted by gray, Sat 21 Oct 2006 05:16:36 PM UTC
GNU inetutils 1.5 released
Item posted by Sergey Poznyakoff <gray> on Sat 21 Oct 2006 05:16:36 PM UTC.
GNU inetutils version 1.5 is available from ftp://ftp.gnu.org and its mirrors worldwide. The short list of changes since the previous release follows:
- Various bugs fixes and clean ups.
- inetd
** New option --environment enables passing client/server data via
environment variables.
** New option --resolve enables resolving IP addresses before passing
them via environment.
** Allows numeric port names as service names
** inetd now creates a PID file
- rcp now supports the -V option
- rshd/rexecd now switches to the users home directory after
authentication.
- rlogin now supports XON/XOFF without needing -8.
- syslogd now can actually disable forwarding.
- talk allows the use of 8-bit ASCII.
- telnet not subject to certain DNS spoofing techniques that could possibly foil Kerberos authentication.
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