NTP users are strongly urged to take immediate action to ensure that their NTP daemons are not susceptible to being used in distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Please also take this opportunity to defeat denial-of-service attacks by implementing Ingress and Egress filtering through BCP38.

ntp-4.2.8p15 was released on 23 June 2020. It addresses 1 medium-severity security issue in ntpd, and provides 13 non-security bugfixes over 4.2.8p13.

Please see the NTP Security Notice for vulnerability and mitigation details.

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Package TWiki::Access

A singleton object of this class manages the access control database.

ClassMethod new ($session)

Constructor.

ObjectMethod finish ()

ObjectMethod getReason () -> $string

Return a string describing the reason why the last access control failure occurred.

ObjectMethod checkAccessPermission ($action,$user,$text,$meta,$topic,$web) -> $boolean

Check if user is allowed to access topic

• $action - 'VIEW', 'CHANGE', 'CREATE', etc.
• $user - User id (not wikiname)
• $text - If undef or '': Read '$theWebName.$theTopicName' to check permissions
• $meta - If undef, but $text is defined, then metadata will be parsed from $text. If defined, then metadata embedded in $text will be ignored. Always ignored if $text is undefined. Settings in $meta override * Set settings in plain text.
• $topic - Topic name to check, e.g. 'SomeTopic' *undef to check web perms only)
• $web - Web, e.g. 'Know'