[pimppa-users] PIMPPA v0.5.5 released [-SPAM-]

[I. W. <iwr...@us...>]

Okay, you insatiable leechers. I have a new pimppa
release for you. The most important feature is a
change on the security side, making the system more
usable in a multiuser system (e.g. enabling you
to prevent your MOTHER from accessing your pimppa db). 

Here's the complete changelog.

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 - Enhanced security, especially important for multiuser systems. 
   Accessing pimppa DB now has a password, but you don't have to type
   it all the time, as it is automatically read from a file.
 CHANGE: Edit ~/.my.cnf to contain 
  
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   [client]
   user=pimppa
   password=your_new_pw
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   and make sure other people can't read the file, e.g.
   $ chmod 0600 ~/.my.cnf
   
   Change mysql password for the user:

   $ mysql -u root -p --execute="USE mysql; UPDATE user \
     SET password=PASSWORD('your_new_pw') WHERE user='pimppa';"

   If you already have some mysql user other than that, you 
   probably know what you're doing; just give that user priviledges 
   to the pimppa database.
 - More intelligent (& conservative) free space check; pimppa
   doesn't now download more messages than the tmpdir has 
   space for tmpfile and decoding.
 - Filenames from article subjects in format like "C:\bull\bull10.jpg" 
   will now be correctly extracted without the path.
 - Entering context in pnewarea was broken, fixed
 - Changed Bowser add_newsgroup default server id to 1
 - Changed the Bowser selection mode to one where you can select 
   multiple files by pressing down ctrl, and select blocks of 
   files by pressing down shift. Thanks to Boz Boz for idea.
 - Added "-n" to suck header leech phase. Seems to speed things up.
 - Viewing scripts now read the file viewer from p_misc 
   key CFG_VIEWER and default to gqview if not found. (Thanks to I.O.)
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The files are available from 

http://pimppa.sf.net/

as usual. Keep 'em bugreports etc coming.


  - Igor