From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Announce: modutils 2.3.21 is available
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Date: Wed, 22 Nov 2000 23:25:17 +1100
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This is the "never release a security fix in a hurry" release.  The
security fixes in modutils 2.3.20 had some side effects on some config
files.  Linus knocked back environment variable MOD_SAFEMODE, instead
the kernel propagates the real uid that caused modprobe to be invoked.

ftp://ftp.<country>.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/modutils/v2.3

patch-modutils-2.3.21.bz2       Patch from modutils 2.3.20 to 2.3.21
modutils-2.3.21.tar.bz2         Source tarball, includes RPM spec file
modutils-2.3.21-1.src.rpm       As above, in SRPM format
modutils-2.3.21-1.i386.rpm      Compiled with egcs-2.91.66, glibc 2.1.2
modutils-2.3.21-1.sparc.rpm     Compiled for combined sparc 32/64

Changelog extract

	* Remove compile warnings in xstrcat.
	* snprintf cleanups.
	* Set safemode when uid != euid.
	* Strip quotes from shell responses.

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