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  1. Oct 16, 2003
  2. Oct 11, 2003
  3. Oct 09, 2003
  4. Sep 26, 2003
    • rswindell's avatar
      Server startup structures now include a private data pointer which is passed · ab579610
      rswindell authored
      back to callback functions (e.g. lputs, thread_up, etc). This allows servers
      to share the same callback functions, eliminating many nearly-identical
      functions. This was able to shave quite a bit of redundant code from ntsvcs.c.
      This feature is not utilized in sbbs (sbbscon.c) or sbbsctrl (mainformunit.cpp).
      ab579610
  5. Sep 16, 2003
  6. Sep 02, 2003
    • deuce's avatar
      Linux will now (sort of) run as a non-root user. After hours of trying · 772ac0b2
      deuce authored
      to track down the issue, I finally gave up... as a result, there is a new
      feature!
      
      Linux will no longer completely drop it's root privs (It never really did
      anyways, and you couldn't possibly make it... but now it does so even less)
      
      As a result, Linux can now recycle all servers when running as non-root.
      
      From a security standpoint, doing this is more secure than running as root,
      but less secure than the behaviour on POSIX.4 compliant pthreads.  Running
      the BBS as root means that if a user can create a file with the name of his
      choice, or pass *any* command through to a shell, that user will get root
      access to the machine.  Using the new behaviour, the user would need to
      trick the Synchronet binary itself into executing arbitrary and specially
      crafted code... probobly using the dreaded buffer overflow... of which
      there are probobly some in the web server code.  :-)  If the user can do
      this much more tricky feat, then the user gets root privs.  If not, the
      user will have to find something else to exploit on your system.
      
      Knowing that some *BSD users (surely not OpenBSD users though) will want to
      trade security for convenience, I stole a page out of the Sendmail book and
      implemented a "DONT_BLAME_SYNCHRONET" make option.  Compiling like this:
      gmake DONT_BLAME_SYNCHRONET=1
      
      Will implement this same behaviour on non-Linux platforms.  Allowing this
      partial security feature.
      772ac0b2
  7. Jul 30, 2003
  8. Jul 23, 2003
    • rswindell's avatar
      Fixed (finally) JavaScript object initialization segfaults when the JS runtime · 345eafda
      rswindell authored
      "max_bytes" value is insufficient for the number of configured items:
      by defining dynamically created objects and arrays as properties of child
      objects of the global object immediately after such objects are created,
      they are "implicitly rooted", protecting them from (unexpected) garbage
      collection. Now the initialization will simply fail with a nice "out of memory"
      error. This was a long-standing bug that rarely occurred in the wild.
      345eafda
  9. Jul 11, 2003
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  23. Apr 10, 2003
  24. Apr 05, 2003
  25. Apr 03, 2003
    • rswindell's avatar
      Eliminated unnecessary JSClass definitions. · 9c83c3b3
      rswindell authored
      Added more property descriptions (for dynamic JS object model docs).
      Fixed a few bugs exposed by jsdocs.js.
      Using JS_NewNumberValue for full 32-bit integer support (bitfields mostly).
      9c83c3b3
  26. Apr 02, 2003
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