HP CIFS Client A.01.09 Release Notes, August 2003

HP CIFS Client A.01.09
Features and Fixes in Recent Releases
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Features and Fixes in Recent Releases
The following features and fixes are listed, beginning with the most
recent.
• Error reporting by PAM-NTLM
Error reporting by the PAM-NTLM module has been enhanced such
that if PAM-NTLM cannot connect to the password server, an
appropriate message is written to syslog.
• PAM-NTLM can fail to handle Unix password expiration
A fix has been implemented for a problem wherein a user with an
expired Unix password can login to the host system without being
forced to change their expired password. This occurs only if the
recommended “stacked” configuration of libpam_ntlm.1 and
libpam_unix.1 is used and the user is not authenticated by the
NTLM server. With this fix, PAM-UNIX forces the user to change
their expired Unix password, as expected.
• Disconnected user sessions cannot reconnect
This enhancement enables user connections that have been
terminated by theserver to be automatically re-established when the
user attempts to access the server.
• Logfile truncation at max size does not work
This fix enforces the maximum logfile size of 50 Mbytes. If the logfile
reaches this size, it is saved with .prev appended to its name
(overwriting any other previously saved copy). The logfile is then
restarted from 0 bytes.
• Incorrect timestamp after DST switch
This fix improves the synchronization of file timestamps between HP
CIFS clients and Windows servers, when the time changes between
standard and daylight savings time.
• NetBIOS scope broken if scope has embedded period (“.”) character(s)
This fixes a bug in the parsing of NetBIOS scope. Scope is an old
feature of the CIFS protocol and its use is discouraged.
• Some Japanese multibyte characters cannot be used