1 userinfo 2.2 released March 17, 2007
2 The compile farm at sourceforge.net is no longer available so I don't have
3 access to OS's other than FreeBSD (4.1) and Linux (2.6) for build testing.
4 If you have a machine other than the above and would like to test
5 compilation on, please let me know of build failures so we can fix them.
7 Updated my email address.
9 Changed the follow symbolic links option -l to -L.
11 The users idle time (login.so) is shown in seconds rather than minutes.
13 Added contrib/fexists.c.
16 userinfo 2.1 released July 30, 2005
17 This release includes some major fixes and code cleanups. Module writers
18 should have another look at doc/README.modules as all of the function
19 names have changed (ui_module_exec() not passwd_exec()). Details follow:
21 The command line options -x and -X behave like -O in that they take a
22 module name to load. No need to specify both.
24 Verbosity (-v) is reset for each module unless specified twice.
26 The strings UNKNOWN, NONE, ON and OFF are more hardcoded and are not
27 configurable in config.h. The ui_module_exec() function has changed to
28 drop these strings and module writers should look at the 'Output Key' from
29 'ui -h' as a guideline for static strings. It's kinda pointless but there
30 are less arguments to this function to worry about.
32 A modules help and dup warning is only shown once.
34 Fixed a memory leak in the login.so module.
36 Fixed module chaining of more than two modules.
38 Bugfix for modules which take no options.
40 Bugfix for the -d option when used with other modules.
43 userinfo 2.0 released December 05, 2004
44 It's been awhile since the last release, but hopefully worth the wait. The
45 program has been split up into modules which will need to be loaded either
46 from the command-line or from a configuration file. See doc/uirc for an
47 example configuration file and doc/README.modules for how to write your
48 own modules. Here's some details about the changes:
50 Added option -m to specify a deliminator for multi-value fields. The old
51 hardcoded character, and new default, was/is a comma.
53 Added option -O, -d and -c to load modules. Read the manual page or look
54 at doc/uirc for configuration file syntax.
56 Added option -d to load the default modules (passwd.so, mail.so, and
57 login.so). By default, no modules are loaded. This option may be used
58 anywhere in the module list.
60 Added option -x to chain the output of a loaded module to the input of the
61 next loaded module. This will only work if the next loaded module is
64 Added option -X to prevent the chained module from outputting it's info.
65 This will just pass the strings which would be outputted to the next
68 Changed the main executable options a bit:
69 Changed option -F to -l (symbolic links)
70 Changed option -j to -t (time format)
71 Changed option -d to -F (field separator)
73 The default time format has changed to "%s" (seconds since epoch). The old
74 format contained a ":" which is the default field separator. Use -t to
75 change it to whatever you want. If your running Solaris please read
78 Changed the options for the modules a bit. To see the options for the
79 modules, load the module with -O, or -c if using a configuration
80 file, or both, when using the -h help switch.
82 The login module now supports multiple logins of the same username. For
83 example, if a user is logged in more than once and the -y module option is
84 specified the output might be: tty2,tty3.
86 Added an example module and shell script to contrib/ in the archive.
88 When a user has logged in via console and the hostname option in the login
89 module is requested, either from the lastlog or from utmp, display the
90 "none" string rather than the "unknown" string.
92 Port to NetBSD. May compile on OpenBSD too, but it hasn't been tested.
94 Removed the Darwin port. It's just not worth the hassle.
96 Automake has been updated. This means DESTDIR support is included in the
99 Fixed ouput of empty password fields from getpwnam().
101 Don't try an convert passwd.so options -c and -e to a time stamp, just
102 dump the passwd structure strings. The exception is if the user is not
103 root, then the unknown string is used. Different OS's use different
104 methods when displaying these values. See getspnam(3) or getpwent(3).
106 We now use getutxent() on systems that support and utilize utmpx. Login
107 process id's are gotten from this utmpx structure rather than KVM or the
108 /proc filesystem. Much more efficient and less error-prone.
110 When requesting the mail folder size and the size is zero, display zero
111 and not the "none" string.