Ganymede 0.99.3 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. --- Uuggh. I screwed up the code that handled the combination of permissions across multiple roles and permission matrices, which broke things horribly for everyone but supergash. On the positive side, the bug revealed another bug that might have layed dormant for a long time in the absence of the big bug, so two for the price of one. I generally wouldn't pop out a new release so soon, but this permissions bug makes it impossible to do anything real with Ganymede unless you are just logging in with the supergash account for testing, and it might have mightily confused anyone who actually tried to dig a bit deep into Ganymede. --------------------- Changes from 0.99.2 to 0.99.3 ------------------- RELEASE DATE: June 23, 1999 1. [SERVER] Fixed value() in StringDBField.java The value() method in StringDBField.java was improperly forcing a permissions check, despite the fact that value() was used for server-side code only. This was causing a problem at transaction commit-time under certain conditions, caused by the PermMatrix.union() bug below. 2. [SERVER] Fixed bugs in permissions system Ugh, I had screwed up PermMatrix.union() in 0.99.2, the object->field inheritance logic wasn't working properly. I fixed PermMatrix.union(), simplified GanymedeSession.getPerm(), and modified both PermEntry.union() and PermEntry.intersection() to optimize out a lot of new PermEntry creation. --- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jonathan Abbey jonabbey@arlut.utexas.edu Applied Research Laboratories The University of Texas at Austin Ganymede, a free NIS/DNS management system http://www.arlut.utexas.edu/gash2