remctl 3.4 released

[Russ Allbery]

I'm pleased to announce release 3.3 of remctl.

remctl is a client/server application that supports remote execution of
specific commands, using Kerberos GSS-API for authentication.
Authorization is controlled by a configuration file and ACL files and can
be set separately for each command, unlike with rsh.  remctl is like a
Kerberos-authenticated simple CGI server, or a combination of Kerberos rsh
and sudo without most of the features and complexity of either.

Changes from previous release:

    Add new C APIs for establishing a remctl connection given a sockaddr,
    a list of struct addrinfo, or an already-open socket.  Patch from
    Jeffrey Hutzelman.

    The Perl bindings now include a new module, Net::Remctl::Backend,
    which handles the setup, dispatch, and help output for the recommended
    style for remctl backend scripts written in Perl.  See its
    documentation for more information.

    Following Perl Best Practices, remove prototypes from all Net::Remctl
    functions.  The confusion caused by changing context away from how
    Perl normally works is not worth any diagnostic value.

    The Net::Remctl Perl bindings now require Perl 5.8 or later (instead
    of 5.006 in previous versions) and are now built with Module::Build
    instead of ExtUtils::MakeMaker.  This should be transparent to anyone
    not working with the source code, since Perl 5.8 was released in 2002,
    but Module::Build and ExtUtils::CBuilder are now required to build
    Net::Remctl.  They are included in Perl 5.10 or later and can be
    installed separately for older versions of Perl.

    Return an error if an empty command is passed into remctl_command
    rather than attempting to malloc zero bytes.

    Update to rra-c-util 4.8:

    * Fix probing for Heimdal's libroken to work with older versions.
    * Improve POD and Perl module tests.
    * Cleanly passes clang --analyze.

    Update to C TAP Harness 2.1:

    * runtests now treats the command line as a list of tests by default.
    * The full test executable path can now be passed to runtests -o.
    * Improved harness output for tests with lazy plans.
    * Improved harness output to a terminal for some abort cases.
    * Flush harness output after each test even when not on a terminal.

You can download it from:

    <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/software/remctl/>

This package is maintained using Git; see the instructions on the above
page to access the Git repository.

Debian packages have been uploaded to Debian experimental.

Please let me know of any problems or feature requests not already listed
in the TODO file.

-- 
Russ Allbery (rra at stanford.edu)             <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>