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This release fixes several segfaults on FreeBSD and Solaris. It no longer ignores values for shadow entries. It features the ability to specify post-useradd and post-userdel scripts, and the ability to override configuration values with the environment. It increases speed with densely populated LDAP directories, and now prevents users from logging into locked accounts via SSH with public key authentication.

This release focused on performance increases for LDAP operations. Some of the changes showed up to a 780% increase in speed over older versions of cpu. There were some minor bug fixes as well, and a modification to the help mechanism.

In addition to the usual bug fixes, several important features have been added. One can now violate POSIX naming conventions (for use with Samba) with the -o switch. Also, the user operations now work exactly the same way as the GNU shadow-utils with respect to groups. When a user is deleted they are now removed from any secondary groups they were in. When a users secondary groups are modified they are removed from old secondary groups and added to new secondary groups. When a users primary group is changed they are no longer added to that group via a memberUid.

This release includes support for account locking and unlocking, configurable user and group cn's, and man bug fixes. See http://cpu.sf.net/ for details

This release includes support for TLS, POSIX user and group names, and LDIF files. See cpu.sf.net for more information.

This is probably the last release in the 1.3 series. Several new features have been added as well as bugs squashed. See the ChangeLog for specifics and as always, please report any bugs.

cpu-1.3.99 has been released. This is the last release in the 1.3 series. Check the ChangeLog and NEWS file for new features, there are quite a few plus some bug fixes.

cpu-1.3.13 has been released. Check the ChangeLog and NEWS file for new features, there are quite a few plus some bug fixes.

This should be the last CVS update for cpu before the next release unless you testers find bugs in the next few days. Grab the latest CVS and let me know if you find any bugs.

cpu-1.3.13 RC1 is available via anonymous cvs. Some new really useful features have been added, so we're looking for some bugtesters before the release.

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or just send mail to cpu-users@lists.sourceforge.net to ask a quick question!

CPU was imported into CVS at sourceforge, and I'm starting to move old files and new files as well as writing some html. Please start posting bug reports as well as feature requests here so that duplicates are not made. Thanks. -Blake