Re: Ganymede 0.99.1 released

["Elizabeth O. Coolbaugh" <cool@eklektix.com>]

Many thanks for the announcement, Jonathan.  It will be mentioned
on our development page this week.

Take care!

Liz Coolbaugh (for the LWN team)
cool@lwn.net

On Thu, May 27, 1999 at 11:08:04PM -0500, Jonathan Abbey wrote:
> Ganymede 0.99.1 is now available for download at
> 
>  http://www.arlut.utexas.edu/gash2/
> 
> or
> 
>  ftp://ftp.arlut.utexas.edu/pub/ganymede/
> 
> Ganymede is a GPL'ed network directory management system written in
> Java, providing support for team management of NIS, DNS, etc.
> 
> --
> 
> Quite a few changes to support production use, including the ability
> to have Ganymede use an RMI registry running on a custom port and a
> 'stopServer' application to supported automated shut-down of the server.
> 
> Added an 'rpcpass' application to the client distribution to support
> Ganymede integration with the Linux NIS kit.
> 
> Did more work on improving the documentation.  This still needs
> a lot of work, but there's now a hypertext version of the INSTALL
> file cross-linked with a comprehensive file glossary.  Lots of
> improvements to the source code's javadocs, but there's lots
> more to be done.
> 
> Brian is working on a total revamp of the DNS support code we're using
> with Ganymede.  We're moving away from the old GASH hosts_info file
> format and moving to an extensible XML format that will support all
> the GASH DNS complexity with support for multiple DNS domains added.
> 
> In the next release or two we'll hopefully revamp the set of schema
> kits included to include a DNS-only schema kit and a useful DNS and
> NIS schema modeled after (but more flexible than) the current gash
> and gasharl schemas.
> 
> -------------------- Changes from 0.99 to 0.99.1 -------------------
> 
> RELEASE DATE: May 27, 1999
> 
> 1. [SERVER] Made decodeDB omit built-in field types by default
> 
> Did a bit of work to clean up the schema report code generated by
> decodeDB.
> 
> 2. [SERVER] Cleaned up, documented DBEditSet, DBEditObject
> 
> Added lots and lots of documentation to the DBEditSet transaction
> class, made the commit() operation a bit more robust in terms
> of relinquishing a write lock on exceptions and errors.
> 
> The DBEditObject class was modified to include a boolean finalAbort
> parameter in the release() method.  Javadocs for this method were
> improved to clarify and document the different ways this method can be
> called.
> 
> 3. [SERVER DISTRIBUTION] Added a stopServer commandline app
> 
> In order to facilitate automatic shutdown of the Ganymede server on
> operating system shutdown, I've created a command-line stopServer
> application that can shut the server down if you keep the server's
> supergash password in its ganymede.properties file.
> 
> Yet another thing for production use.. we use this to support
> automatic server shutdown when we reboot our Solaris Ganymede server.
> 
> 4. [SERVER, CLIENT DISTRIBUTION] Made registry port number configurable
> 
> The Ganymede server and clients can now be configured to use an RMI
> Registry on a non-standard tcp port.  This is necessary if you are
> going to run the Ganymede server on the same system as other RMI
> servers (such as Sun's SIMS administration console).
> 
> The server, client, admin console and password client all now accept a
> property/parameter called ganymede.registryPort.  If the
> ganymede.registryPort is not set, all Ganymede code will default to
> the standard RMI registry port, 1099.
> 
> 5. [SERVER] Added Session.findLabeledObject()
> 
> Added a convenient shortcut method in Session called
> findLabeledObject() which allows the client to quickly get an invid
> from an object type and name without having to use the full Query()
> method.
> 
> This method is used by client/rpcpass.java.
> 
> 6. [CLIENT] Added client/rpcpass.java to support Linux NIS rpc.yppasswdd
> 
> Added a program 'rpcpass' to the client distribution.  rpcpass is
> designed to be used with the -x/--execute option present in versions
> 1.3.6.92 and later of the Linux NISkit's rpc.yppasswdd daemon
> (included in the ypserv distribution), to allow users to use yppasswd
> to change their password in Ganymede.
> 
> When run, rpcpass reads a single line from stdin,
> which should be of the form
> 
> <username> o:<oldpass> p:<new cryptpass> s:<shell> g:<gcos>\n
> 
> Where the p:, s:, and g: fields are each optional.
> 
> After reading this line from stdin, rpcpass will connect to
> the Ganymede server and change the password and/or shell.  If
> this operation succeeds, rpcpass will emit a single line
> to stdout,
> 
> OK\n
> 
> which is to be read by rpc.yppasswdd to signal success.  If
> there are any problems, these will be described in a 
> report to stdout, which rpc.yppasswdd will take as a failure
> signal.
> 
> Note that while the rpc.yppasswdd daemon may pass gcos information to
> rpcpass, the gecos field is formatted differently on different
> operating systems, and so rpcpass does not attempt to handle it at
> all.
> 
> Of course, any program can use the rpcpass program to propagate
> password/shell change requests to Ganymede, not just the Linux NIS
> kit's rpc.yppasswdd daemon.
> 
> 7. [SOURCE] Fixed a couple more PATH problems with building sources
> 
> A couple of fixes relating to doing source builds with '.' not in
> one's PATH.
> 
> EXECUTING: src/server/build
>   ERROR     :  buildrmi: command not found
>   FILE FIXED: src/server/build
>   PREV LINE :  buildrmi
>   NEW LINE  :  ./buildrmi
> 
> EXCECUTING: src/classes/buildJar
>   ERROR     :  sync_tree: command not found
>   FILE FIXED: src/classes/buildJar
>   PREV LINE :  sync_tree 
>   NEW LINE  :  ./sync_tree
> 
> Reported by Andy Johnson (andyjohnson@engineer.com).
> 
> 8. [DOCUMENTATION] Significantly Improved Documentation
> 
> Fixed all link errors in the javadocs.  Added more javadocs to several
> classes.
> 
> Reworked doc/index.html.  Added an HTML version of the INSTALL file,
> cross-linked to a file glossary.  Added the log file format documentation
> to the doc distrib.
> 
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> Jonathan Abbey				              jonabbey@arlut.utexas.edu
> Applied Research Laboratories                 The University of Texas at Austin
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