remctl 3.5

remctl is the middleware layer that we use all over the place at Stanford. It's a simple GSS-API client/server application that provides a very low-weight way of running a specific command using GSS-API authentication and strong ACL checking.

The primary point of this release is to fix a very long-standing occasional data corruption issue. Due to the way that the remctl server checked for the completion of a command, a command that produced a lot of output immediately before exiting could have the end of its output cut off when sending it back to the client. That's fixed in this release.

Also in this release, I finally figured out the thread-safe way of specifying to the GSS-API layer which Kerberos ticket cache to use for authentication. This means that the remctl_set_ccache API is now thread-safe if there were Kerberos libraries available during the remctl build and gss_krb5_import_cred was supported.

I also fixed the way that the Perl modules are versioned, which resulted in a one-time move backwards of the module versions from Perl's perspective (from 3.4 to 3.05). Hopefully that won't be a problem for anyone. The Perl module version will match the package version with an adjustment so that it sorts properly as a number from here on.

You can get the latest version from the remctl distribution page.

Posted: 2013-06-28 21:59 — Why no comments?

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