From 4152dca09e6a7d9b0da81cb5ac6f76e8f05d2a23 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joey Hess Date: Thu, 29 May 2008 15:17:19 -0400 Subject: documentation for use of hashed passwords Everything but the actual coding to support them. --- debian/NEWS | 12 +++++++++++- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'debian/NEWS') diff --git a/debian/NEWS b/debian/NEWS index 9dd93c85e..086798750 100644 --- a/debian/NEWS +++ b/debian/NEWS @@ -1,3 +1,13 @@ +ikiwiki (2.48) unstable; urgency=low + + If you allowed password based logins to your wiki, those passwords were + stored in cleartext in the userdb. To guard against exposing users' + passwords, I recommend you install the Authen::Passphrase perl module, and + then run `ikiwiki-transition hashpassword /path/to/srcdir` to replace all + existing cleartext passwords with strong (blowfish) hashes. + + -- Joey Hess Thu, 29 May 2008 14:39:34 -0400 + ikiwiki (2.46) unstable; urgency=low There were some significant template changes in ikiwiki 2.42 (and 1.33.5). @@ -89,7 +99,7 @@ ikiwiki (2.14) unstable; urgency=low This version of ikiwiki is more picky about symlinks in the path leading to the srcdir, and will refuse to use a srcdir specified by such a path. - This was necessary to avoid some potential exploits, but could potentially + This was necessary to avoid some potential exploits, but could potentially break (semi-)working wikis. If your wiki has a srcdir path containing a symlink, you should change it to use a path that does not. -- cgit v1.2.3