Updates to ftp, httpd, ftpd and man pages

I've received a note from Albert Woodhull of some updates to some of the Minix 3.1.2a software.

The first is a new version of Michael Temari's ftp program, ftp101.tar.Z (Mirrored from here). From Albert: "It should actually have been part of the last Minix 2 (2.0.4) release, and thus of all Minix 3 releases. It fixes at least one bug. I've made some updates to the documentation. There is more information in
ftp101.txt (Mirrored from here)."

There is also a new release of Michael Temari's httpd program. This release adds redirection support and is avilable for download in httpd0995.taz (Mirrored from here). More about it is in httpd0995.txt (Mirrored from here).

Several new man pages were also provided to me by Albert in man0606.tar.Z (Mirrored from here). They include:

• ftp.1 (updated for ftp 1.01, released Feb 2005)
• http_status.5
• httpd.8 (updated for httpd 0.995, released May 2006)
• httpd.conf.5
• mtools.1
• tcpd.8
• urlget.1

I was also advised that Minix 3 has older source for the ftpd program that has a security vulnerability. It ships with the correct binary but not the correct source. So it's safe to run the ftpd binary but if you rebuild ftpd from source you'll get the version with the vulnerability. The corrected source is available in ftpd200.tar.Z (Mirrored from here). Information about it is in ftpd200.txt (Mirrored from here).

I believe the Minix CVS has been updated with some of this and will likely be in the next release. Thanks for the updates Albert!

Categories: minix, updates