From owner-cvs-src@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 26 07:55:28 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: cvs-src@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2AC6516A4CF for ; Mon, 26 Jan 2004 07:55:28 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.mho.com (smtp.mho.net [64.58.4.6]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id AE23143D90 for ; Mon, 26 Jan 2004 07:53:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from scottl@freebsd.org) Received: (qmail 26873 invoked by uid 1002); 26 Jan 2004 15:53:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO freebsd.org) (64.58.1.252) by smtp.mho.net with SMTP; 26 Jan 2004 15:53:24 -0000 Message-ID: <4015377A.3000609@freebsd.org> Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 08:51:22 -0700 From: Scott Long User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.5) Gecko/20031103 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Jacques A. Vidrine" References: <200401260008.i0Q08cIl014780@repoman.freebsd.org> <20040126000922.GA6102@madman.celabo.org> <20040126004123.GJ53344@elvis.mu.org> <20040126125638.GC9772@madman.celabo.org> In-Reply-To: <20040126125638.GC9772@madman.celabo.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: cvs-src@FreeBSD.org cc: Alfred Perlstein cc: re@FreeBSD.org cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org cc: src-committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/contrib/cvs/src server.c X-BeenThere: cvs-src@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: CVS commit messages for the src tree List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 15:55:28 -0000 Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: > On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 04:41:23PM -0800, Alfred Perlstein wrote: > >>* Jacques A. Vidrine [040125 16:09] wrote: >> >>>On Sun, Jan 25, 2004 at 04:08:38PM -0800, Jacques A. Vidrine wrote: >>> >>>>nectar 2004/01/25 16:08:38 PST >>>> >>>> FreeBSD src repository >>>> >>>> Modified files: (Branch: RELENG_5_2) >>>> contrib/cvs/src server.c >>>> Log: >>>> MFC 1.1.1.14: Do not allow pserver to be run as root. >>> >>>This was also `Approved by: re'. >> >>Nice of us to break something that used to work without a deprication/warning >>period. :( > > > Running pserver as root was already a broken configuration. This just > makes it more obvious. :-) > > Seriously, if we were talking about 4.x I might have more sympathy, > but I believe this is an appropriate behavior to change in a 5.x > release. > > Apparently the CVS developers also felt this was an appropriate change > for minor point release. > > Finally, there was overwhelming support for this change: over the past > month I've received several requests for it; and RE received several > requests to incorporate the change in 5.2.1. > > >>Note: this is what my earlier mail was about. > > > I haven't seen an earlier mail on this subject from you... I guess I > could have missed it? > > Cheers, I guess this means that an UPDATING entry is in order, along with some special words in the release notes. Bruce? Scott