DACS - Distributed Access Control System

File Release Notes and Changelog

Release Name: dacs-1.4.8

Notes:
This is primarily a bug fix and minor enhancements release.
Because DACS is security software, all users are advised to upgrade.


News
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The major change is the new dacscheck(1) command, which we believe will open up DACS to many developers and many new applications.  It provides simplified, platform-independent, general-purpose access to the DACS access control rule evaluation engine.  This feature can be used by any virtually *any* application, script (Perl, PHP, shell, etc.), server software, or CGI program to make data-driven access control decisions rather than program-driven ones.  dacscheck can be used by itself and does not depend 
on any other DACS programs, web services, or even an web server.  Simply  install it and start to use it.  Please refer to the manual page for details and examples.

Other changes of note:
  - many bug fixes and documentation revisions and improvements
  - upgrade to OpenSSL 0.9.8a
  - new configuration directives for password constraints
  - fixes for Cygwin


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