Ferret V4.1

<body topmargin=0 leftmargin=0 marginheight=0 marginwidth=0> <table cellpadding=0 cellspacing=0 border=0><tr> <td valign="top" colspan=2 height=110 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="1adf0f21egerdp.jpg"> <div> <B><IMG SRC="03a203c0.jpg" border=0 width="32" height="60" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B><FONT SIZE="5" COLOR="#66334C" FACE="Arial" ><B>Saiga Systems Software</B></FONT><B>      |     </B><A HREF="default.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Saiga Systems Software"><U><B>home</B></U></A></div> <div> back to<B>  </B><A HREF="id3.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Download Current Products"><U><B>Download Current Products</B></U></A></div> <div> </div> </td> </tr><tr> <td valign="top" width=210 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="1acf2f02egerdp.jpg"> <div> <A HREF="id10.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Hitman V9"><U>Hitman V9</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id8.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="RA V7"><U>RA V7</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id9.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Watch V6"><U>Watch V6</U></A></div> <div> <B>Ferret V4.1</B></div> <div> <A HREF="id19.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="VDM V7"><U>VDM V7</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id26.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Swap V4"><U>Swap V4</U></A></div> <div> <A HREF="id27.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Trace V2"><U>Trace V2</U></A></div> <bR> <bR> <div> Copyright:</div> <div> Saiga Systems Software Inc.</div> <div> Suite 913,</div> <div> 105 - 150 Crowfoot Cres NW</div> <div> Calgary, AB</div> <div> Canada</div> <div> T3G 3T2</div> <bR> <bR> <div> Last Update to this page:</div> <div> May 1, 2003</div> <bR> </td> <td valign="top" height=370 BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" TEXT="#080000" bgproperties="fixed" background="1aff0f03.jpg"> <div> <I><IMG SRC="0474e180.gif" border=0 width="334" height="280" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></I></div> <div> <I>Ferret Version 4.1</I></div> <div> <A HREF="#ferret" TITLE="Ferret V4.1"><U><I>release notes</I></U></A></div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="#patches" TITLE="Ferret V4.1"><U><I>patches</I></U></A></div> <bR> <div> Current revision: V4.1.4-0503</div> <bR> <div> <B>Download</B></div> <div> This page contains links for everything necessary to download and install/upgrade to Ferret V4.1.4-0503. The links are all ftp links and you should be able to use the save as ... or save link as ... options from within your browser to save the files locally. </div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.saiga.com/ftp/saiga/cohort30/common20.zip" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.saiga.com/ftp/saiga/cohort30/"><U>COMMON20.ZIP</U></A> a library of routines used by all the products in the Cohort Suite. You do not install this product but it must be present for the Hitman installation to work correctly.</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.saiga.com/ftp/saiga/cohort30/ferret41.zip" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.saiga.com/ftp/saiga/cohort30/"><U>Ferret41.zip</U></A> the actual Ferret V4.1 software distribution. This files contains both the VAX and AXP versions of Ferret. </div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.saiga.com/ftp/saiga/cohort30/instlgd3.pdf" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.saiga.com/ftp/saiga/cohort30/"><U>INSTLGD3.PDF</U></A> the Cohort V3 installation guide with complete instructions for installing Hitman. The guide also includes a sample Ferret installation. The manual is in the Adobe Acrobat Public Document Format; most browsers can read these files and free viewers for many platforms are available from <A HREF="http://www.adobe.com/" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.adobe.com/"><U>www.adobe.com</U></A>; no official .pdf viewer is available for OpenVMS, however, we do plan to publish our documentation to .html as well for the final Cohort V3 release. It is possible to print documentation from within the Acrobat reader.</div> <bR> <div> <A HREF="http://www.saiga.com/ftp/saiga/cohort30/FER41u.pdf" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.saiga.com/ftp/saiga/cohort30/"><U>FER41U.PDF</U></A> is the complete Ferret V4.1 user manual. It includes release notes for V4.1 under the chapter "New Features". This document is also in the .PDF format. </div> <bR> <div> A 30 day demo license is available for ferret or Cohort by contacting Saiga Systems directly. During the 2001-2002 holiday season a <A HREF="id121.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="Demo License"><U>30 day demo license</U></A> has also been made available on-line. Current users should note that the license key used for previous version(s) of ferret or Cohort will need to be replaced by a current license which must be loaded before running ferret V4.1; your existing license will not work. Please contact Saiga Systems directly to obtain a license for this product if you do not already have one. However, this license will not interfere with existing license(s) if you plan to run a mixture of Cohort V2 and Cohort V3 modules.</div> <bR> <div> *NEW* The <A HREF="http://www.saiga.com/ferret4/main.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.saiga.com/ferret4/main.htm"><U>Ferret V4.1 User Manual</U></A> and the <A HREF="http://www.saiga.com/install3/main.htm" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.saiga.com/install3/main.htm"><U>Cohort V3 Installation Guide</U></A> are now on-line in .html format. They can also be downloaded in a zip file for extracting under Windows: <A HREF="http://www.saiga.com/ftp/saiga/cohort30/f41useht.zip" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.saiga.com/ftp/saiga/cohort30/"><U>f41useht.zip</U></A>, <A HREF="http://www.saiga.com/ftp/saiga/cohort30/c3inhtm.zip" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.saiga.com/ftp/saiga/cohort30/"><U>c3inhtm.zip.</U></A></div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="ferret"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><B>Release Notes</B></div> <div> <B> <TABLE BORDER="2" CELLPADDING="2" CELLSPACING="1" WIDTH="520" BORDERCOLORLIGHT="#C0C0C0" BORDERCOLORDARK="#808080" FRAME="BOX" RULES="ALL" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" > <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 57 WIDTH="41"><div> 1</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="460"><div> The ability to sort list reports on almost any test or numeric value in the UAF record has been added. Sorts maybe in ascending or descending order.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 38 WIDTH="41"><div> 2</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="460"><div> A new utility has been added to help copy identifiers from one node to another.</div> </tD> </tR> <tR> <tD VALIGN=TOP HEIGHT= 57 WIDTH="41"><div> 3</div> </tD> <tD VALIGN=TOP WIDTH="460"><div> When using Ferret to modify password lifetime V4 would update the field with a date calculated from the delta time provided instead of recording the delta time. This has been fixed.</div> </tD> </tR> </TABLE></B></div> <bR> <div> <B> <A NAME="patches"><IMG BORDER="0" SRC="1x1.gif" HEIGHT="1" ALIGN="bottom" WIDTH="1" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0" ></A></B><B>Patches</B></div> <div> The following patch files were made available in May 2003. They can be applied to any installation of Version 4.1 of Ferret. The zip file of the patches includes detailed instructions on how to apply the patches; please copy the zip file to your VAX or AXP, unzip it under OpenVMS and then follows the instructions in the patches.txt file. If you downloaded Ferret Version 4.1 after May 1, 2003, it is not necessary to apply the patches after installation - they are included in the Ferret distribution.</div> <bR> <div> For VAX patches download <A HREF="http://www.saiga.com/ftp/saiga/cohort30/f414vax.zip" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.saiga.com/ftp/saiga/cohort30/"><U>f414vax.zip</U></A>.</div> <div> For AXP patches download <A HREF="http://www.saiga.com/ftp/saiga/cohort30/f414axp.zip" TARGET="_top" TITLE="http://www.saiga.com/ftp/saiga/cohort30/"><U>f414axp.zip</U></A>.</div> <bR> <div> This patch fixes the following problems:</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Using FERRET to update the expiration date in the UAF did not work for more than 1 account at a time due to an incorrectly set return value in the set_expiration function.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">Ferret did not properly signal an error when the previous problem was encountered.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">The Ferret differences report did not detect changes made to a users default privileges unless those changes were also made to the authorized privileges.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">When the /statistics qualifier was used with the report generator (/list=(item,item,item) or /specification=spec_file) the number of records reported was exactly twice the real value. The number of records reported should now be correct. This problem did not affect the audit, access, differences, identifier, flags or privileges reports.</div> <bR> <div> <IMG BORDER="0" SRC="Symb075c00b700f000000000.gif" HEIGHT="16" WIDTH="24" ALIGN="bottom" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0">When a differences report was generated any entries displayed for modified UAF accounts did not correctly count the entry separation line of asterisks. This made pages with multiple modified UAF account entries overflow. This has been fixed.</div> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>