[mapserver-dev] 5.4 Release Tomorrow?

[Flavio Hendry]

och, will just spend the rest of my days fixing up mapfiles ...

Mit freundlichem Gruss / Best Regards
Flavio Hendry

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-----Original Message-----
From: "Steve Lime" <Steve.Lime at dnr.state.mn.us>
To: <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>, <mapserver-dev at lists.osgeo.org>,
<flavio at tydac.ch>
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:31:44 -0500
Subject: Re: [mapserver-dev] 5.4 Release Tomorrow?

> I'll take that as a +0 now...
> 
> >>> "Flavio Hendry" <flavio at tydac.ch> 04/22/09 8:29 AM >>>
> Hi Jeff
> 
> I just can't imagine how this should increase any security ...
> Anyway,
> if people can crack the pentagon (was in the news today) they can
> crack
> my dumb servers 1'000 times - with our without that keyword ... :-(
> ...
> and as far as I read, it did not concern MapScript anyway. So just
> old
> Morissette bugging me ;-) - something he likes a lot.
> 
> Mit freundlichem Gruss / Best Regards
> Flavio Hendry
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> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jeff McKenna <jmckenna at gatewaygeomatics.com>
> To: mapserver-dev at lists.osgeo.org
> Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 08:53:04 -0400
> Subject: Re: [mapserver-dev] 5.4 Release Tomorrow?
> 
> > 
> > > We installed 5.4 RC2 and stumbled over a nasty incompatibility.
> It
> > seems
> > > that RC2 now requires the keywords MAP and SYMBOLSET in MapFiles
> > which
> > > were nicely ignored before ... (even in beta2, so it seems a very
> > last
> > > minute change). For us and our clients it would mean updating
> > hundreds
> > > of MapFiles as we ignored them since we use MapServer (2001 or
> > so)......
> > > 
> > 
> > Hi Flavio,
> > 
> > I did voice your same concerns privately regarding these changes
> (as 
> > every mapfile that I have touched since 2000 doesn't meet these new
> > standards)...but in the interest of security it's worth the pain.
> > 
> > -jeff
> > 
> > 
> > -- 
> > Jeff McKenna
> > FOSS4G Consulting and Training Services
> > http://www.gatewaygeomatics.com/
> > 
> > 
> > 
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