=================================================================== RCS file: /cvsrepo/anoncvs/cvs/www/74.html,v retrieving revision 1.70 retrieving revision 1.71 diff -u -r1.70 -r1.71 --- www/74.html 2023/10/14 18:24:33 1.70 +++ www/74.html 2023/10/14 18:30:35 1.71 @@ -229,13 +229,6 @@ a random offset less than the step value. This can be used to avoid thundering herd problems where multiple machines contact a server all at the same time via cron jobs. -
  • Introduce a new group "_shutdown". Previously the "operator" - group gave a user the ability to shutdown(8) a system. But this group - also comes with superuser abilities for dumping disks and manipulating - tape drives. With this change, the permissions are separated and users - using the shutdown/reboot functionality with group "operator" will - notice it no longer works. They need to move themselves to the new - group.
  • Extend and improve the ibuf API in libutil and add function for more specific data types, for modifying data at specific @@ -571,7 +564,7 @@
  • In malloc(3), check all chunks in the delayed free list for write-after-free.
  • The shutdown(8) - program can now only be executed by members of the + program can now only be executed by members of the new _shutdown group. The idea is that system administrators can now remove most users from the excessively powerful operator group, which in particular