upstreaming debian's xdm patches

[Matthieu Herrb]

On Tue, Jan 05, 2010 at 06:18:14PM +0000, Julien Cristau wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Debian's been carrying some changes to xdm since the xfree86 days, most
> of them as part of a big "xdm_fixes.diff" patch with various unrelated
> changes.  A while ago I started splitting those changes up and trying to
> figure out what was still possibly relevant, and Alan picked up some of
> them which are included in 1.1.9.  I'm getting tired of rebasing these
> patches for each new upstream release, though, so I'd like to see what
> can be made of the remainder of these changes.
> 
> Matthieu, the old patch had this in the header:
> 
> Submitted upstream to Matthieu Herrb on 2003-09-24.
>   + except for latest changes to genauth.c and session.c, which were
>     submitted to Matthieu Herrb on 2003-10-14
> 
> Do you remember what happened with this, and did you maintain an xdm
> tree somewhere?

Only vaguely. This was in the last months of XFree86, so if I committed 
those patches somewhere it should be in the XFree86 4.4 beta. 
But I may have slacked on those partches and not have committed before
XFree86 collapsed. 

> For some of the patches I'm not sure of the attribution.  The old patch
> listed Branden Robinson, Matthieu Herrb, and Richard Braakman as
> authors.

I could try to dig old mailboxes, but without any guaranty that I still
have those messages (they are archived on CDs somewhere in my office 
at work).

Otherwise:

Reviewed-by: Matthieu Herrb <matthieu.herrb at laas.fr>

Just one remark for patch 4 (appending to the log file instead of
truncating it): this will probably require to do something to rotate
the log file with other logs... but can xdm re-open it after rotation?

> 
> Cheers,
> Julien
> 
> Branden Robinson (7):
>       downgrade an error to info message
>       Change openFiles() to avoid race-based symlink attacks.
>       Always attempt to write data to the auth file
>       improve error logging
>       Improve logging of xdm's script handling
>       add support for logfile rotation
>       rewrite StorePid()
> 
> Julien Cristau (2):
>       Add timestamping to logging functions
>       Append to the log file instead of truncating it
> 
> Manoj Srivastava (1):
>       xdm: add SELinux support
> 
>  auth.c       |   85 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----
>  configure.ac |   17 +++++++
>  dm.c         |  148 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------
>  dm_error.h   |    2 +
>  error.c      |   25 ++++++++--
>  session.c    |   89 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
>  xdm.man.cpp  |   31 ++++++++++++
>  7 files changed, 318 insertions(+), 79 deletions(-)
> 

-- 
Matthieu Herrb