[el5_u3_base] authconfig-gtk-5.3.21-5.el5.x86_64

Authconfig-gtk is a GUI program which can configure a workstation
to use shadow (more secure) passwords.  Authconfig-gtk can also configure
a system to be a client for certain networked user information and
authentication schemes.

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• Fri Oct 31 2008 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> - 5.3.21-5

  - fix regression in MD5 checkbox in authconfig-tui (#468392)

• Fri Sep 12 2008 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> - 5.3.21-4

  - add option --enablepreferdns to prefer DNS over NIS or WINS in
    hostname resolution (#443482)

• Tue Apr 01 2008 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> - 5.3.21-3

  - fix regression of --enable/disablemd5 options and document
    --passalgo option (#440026)

• Tue Jan 29 2008 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> - 5.3.21-2

  - add requires for shadow-utils which work with new password hashes

• Tue Jan 29 2008 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> - 5.3.21-1

  - correct the fix for bug #237956

• Fri Jan 18 2008 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> - 5.3.20-1

  - update translations

• Wed Jan 09 2008 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> - 5.3.19-1

  - support new sha256 and sha512 password hash algorithms
  - add support for pam_mkhomedir (#212790)
  - do not crash in authconfig --help (#237956) - thanks to Andy Shevchenko for
    the idea how to fix that
  - setup password hash algorithm in /etc/login.defs (#218652)
  - update translations

• Tue Sep 25 2007 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> - 5.3.18-1

  - improve krb5.conf handling (#238766)

• Fri Aug 24 2007 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> - 5.3.17-1

  - remove obsolete pam_krb5afs support (#250704)
  - add support for pam_access (#251360)
  - update translations

• Tue Aug 21 2007 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> - 5.3.16-3

  - license tag fix

• Thu Aug 09 2007 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> - 5.3.16-2

  - require newt-python (#251359)

• Wed Jul 25 2007 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> - 5.3.16-1

  - add support for winbind offline login (#232955)

• Wed Jul 18 2007 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> - 5.3.15-1

  - dnsclient fixes by Simo Sorce
  - add Categories to .desktop file (#245868)
  - fixed traceback when calling joinDomain (#245374)
  - disable smart card action setting when gnome-screensaver
    not installed (#209643)
  - do not change protocols and services in nsswitch.conf (#236669)

• Tue Jun 12 2007 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> - 5.3.14-1

  - authconfig.8 synopsis fixed (patch by Eric Raymond) (#220574)
  - drop explicit requirement on python version as it is now 
    generated automatically
  - improve writing /etc/samba/smb.conf (based on patch by
    Simo Sorce)
  - merge changes upstream

• Fri May 04 2007 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> - 5.3.13-4

  - local nis domain is obtained from sysconfig/network (#235927)
  - set "local authorization is sufficient" on by default

• Thu Apr 05 2007 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> - 5.3.13-3

  - minor changes and cleanups for merge review (#225293)

• Mon Mar 19 2007 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> - 5.3.13-2

  - nss_ldap is now in /usr/lib (#232975)

• Tue Dec 12 2006 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> - 5.3.13-1

  - another traceback in --probe and other fixes (#218874)
  - make smbRealm a default realm when appropriate (#219300)
  - added missing languages in LINGUAS

• Wed Nov 29 2006 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> - 5.3.12-1

  - when pam_krb5 auth fails with smartcard login don't enforce it
    in the account stack (#214931)
  - updated translations (#216570)
  - winbind should be added only to user tables (#216862)

• Fri Oct 20 2006 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> - 5.3.11-1

  - fixed --smartcardaction command line option (#211552)

• Fri Oct 06 2006 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> - 5.3.10-1

  - fixed passwd PAM stack when PKCS11 enabled (#195960)
  - make authconfig --probe work again (#209676)

• Mon Oct 02 2006 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> - 5.3.9-1

  - updated translations (#207095)
  - correctly write pam_smb.conf with only one server specified (#208365)

• Thu Sep 21 2006 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> - 5.3.8-1

  - move options to another tab to fit on 800x600 screen (#207357)

• Tue Sep 19 2006 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> - 5.3.7-1

  - improve PAM setup for smart card login
  - support smart card login with kerberos (PKINIT)
  - add pam_pkcs11 to password PAM stack

• Mon Sep 04 2006 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> - 5.3.6-1

  - skip pam_unix for session for crond service
  - fixed a bug in saving when smartcard settings changed (#204838)
  - removed allow_ypbind setsebool as it is now handled in ypbind

• Tue Aug 29 2006 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> - 5.3.5-1

  - improve smart card related UI strings
  - removed possibility to set smart card type from authconfig-gtk
    as only coolkey will be supported for now

• Thu Aug 24 2006 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> - 5.3.4-1

  - pass options given to authconfig-gtk to authconfig (#203955)

• Sun Jul 23 2006 Ray Strode <rstrode@redhat.com> - 5.3.3-2

  - write out new "wait_for_card" config option if we're
    forcing smart card authentication
  - add "use_uid" option to smart card pam_succeed_if line to
    work around bug where pam_succeed_if checks user information
    even in cases where the conditional doesn't depend on it.
  - remove unimplemented "logout" smart card removal action from
    settings
  - remove unnecessary "card_only" argument

• Fri Jul 21 2006 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> - 5.3.3-1

  - don't start sceventd when smartcard login is enabled
  - improve pam config for smartcard login

• Tue Jul 18 2006 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> - 5.3.2-1

  - don't require pam_pkcs11 to run

• Tue Jul 18 2006 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> - 5.3.1-1

  - screensavers should be authenticated by smartcard too
  - add feature to download a CA certificate for LDAP from 
    an URL (#197103)
  - add pam_keyinit session module to the PAM configuration (#198638)

• Fri Jul 07 2006 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> - 5.3.0-1

  - added support for smartcard authentication
  - fixed parsing kerberos realms

• Thu May 18 2006 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> - 5.2.5-1

  - write ldap servers as URIs and not HOSTs (#191842)
  - fix a typo in --test output
  - updated summary, converted changelog to UTF-8

• Fri May 12 2006 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> - 5.2.4-1

  - added crond to the services restarted after firstboot (#187334)
  - when checking nscd status redirect output to /dev/null (#188555)

• Tue Mar 21 2006 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> - 5.2.3-1

  - make smb.conf and krb5.conf loading more robust (#185766)

• Mon Feb 27 2006 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> - 5.2.2-1

  - add try_first_pass option to pam_unix for better integration
    with individual service configurations (#182350)
  - updated translations

• Mon Feb 20 2006 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> - 5.2.1-1

  - don't crash in TUI when some options aren't set (#182151)

• Fri Feb 03 2006 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> - 5.2.0-1

  - redesigned GUI (#178112)
  - added man page for system-config-ac (#179584)
  - disable authentication of system accounts by network services
    by default, added option for changing that (#179009)
  - updated translations, new languages

• Mon Jan 09 2006 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> - 5.1.2-1

  - fixed regression when saving nsswitch.conf

• Fri Jan 06 2006 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> - 5.1.1-1

  - print warning if PAM module is missing when the PAM configuration
    is saved (#168880)

• Fri Dec 23 2005 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com>

  - make child dialog preset code more robust (#176462)

• Sat Dec 17 2005 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> - 5.1.0-1

  - update only configuration files which settings were modified (#72290)

• Mon Dec 05 2005 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> - 5.0.4-1

  - don't ignore krb5realm command line option (#174838)
  - read dns_lookup_realm and dns_lookup_kdc values correctly
  - the PAM configuration is now written in system-auth-ac file
    which is then symlinked from system-auth, the symlink is not
    overwritten so local PAM configuration is now possible (#165342)

• Mon Nov 07 2005 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> - 5.0.3-1

  - add symlinks to python scripts in sbindir
  - don't override nullok setting from system-auth (#96996)

• Fri Oct 14 2005 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> - 5.0.2-1

  - authinfo-tui.py is now symlink
  - reword the CA certificate message (#154317)
  - use include instead of pam_stack in pam config
  - don't break yp.conf with multiple domains (#127306)

• Mon Sep 05 2005 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> - 5.0.1-1

  - fixed a few errors catched by pychecker

• Sat Sep 03 2005 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> - 5.0.0-1

  - C code completely rewritten in Python
  - some bugs fixed in the process (and no doubt new introduced)
  - TUI deprecated, opens only when run as authconfig-tui

• Mon Jun 20 2005 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> - 4.6.13-1

  - set domain and ypserver option correctly when multiple servers
    specified in kickstart (#159214)

• Tue Apr 12 2005 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> - 4.6.12-1

  - replaced deprecated gtk.TRUE/FALSE (#153034)
  - updated translations

• Mon Mar 14 2005 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com>

  - propagate the --enablewinbindauth option to the configuration (#151018)

• Fri Mar 04 2005 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> - 4.6.11-1

  - changed version propagation

• Thu Mar 03 2005 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com>

  - updated translations
  - fixed build on gcc4

• Wed Feb 23 2005 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> - 4.6.10-1

  - updated translations

• Thu Feb 10 2005 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> - 4.6.9-1

  - improved the code that writes tls_cacertdir to ldap.conf

• Tue Jan 25 2005 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com>

  - renamed functions in authconfigmodule to be more clear
  - implemented cacertdir for LDAP with TLS

• Mon Jan 24 2005 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com>

  - fixed a bug in authinfo_differs when called from python

• Fri Dec 17 2004 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> - 4.6.8-1

  - add option for making local authorization sufficient for local users
    this is attempt to 'solve/workaround' the problem with blocking local logins by
    pulling out network cable (#115181)

• Wed Dec 15 2004 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com>

  - remove dependency on nscd
  - don't show warning messages when switching options off

• Mon Dec 06 2004 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> - 4.6.7-1

  - updated translations
  - winbind in authconfig-gtk.py was setting the nsswitch.conf on the auth tab
  - use GtkComboBox instead of deprecated GtkOptionMenu
  - disable options with not installed binaries, remove unnecessary deps of
    authconfig-gtk

• Thu Nov 18 2004 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com> - 4.6.6-1

  - merged patches from dist
  - fix versioning

• Mon Nov 08 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj@redhat.com> - 4.6.5-6

  - rebuild against python 2.4

• Thu Oct 28 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>

  - Fix setsebool patch to turn off boolean

• Thu Oct 28 2004 Dan Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>

  - Add setsebool for NIS

• Fri Oct 15 2004 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com>

  - force broken_shadow option on network auth (#136760)

• Fri Oct 15 2004 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com>

  - force restart of autofs on firstboot call when using NIS (#133035, #124498)

• Thu Oct 07 2004 Tomas Mraz <tmraz@redhat.com>

  - require python to install (#134654)

• Mon Oct 04 2004 Jindrich Novy <jnovy@redhat.com> 4.6.5-1

  - updated translations from upstream
  - autogeneration of build stripts in prep phase

• Thu Sep 30 2004 Jindrich Novy <jnovy@redhat.com>

  - fixed man page
  - added dependency on nscd

• Wed Sep 29 2004 Jindrich Novy <jnovy@redhat.com> 4.6.4-6

  - regenerated build scripts

• Wed Sep 29 2004 Jindrich Novy <jnovy@redhat.com> 4.6.4-5

  - fixed all po files to translate correctly messages with modified accelerators (#133742)
  - added translations for Arabic, Bulgarian and other languages (#133716, #133158)

• Wed Sep 22 2004 Jindrich Novy <jnovy@redhat.com> 4.6.4-4

  - added "quiet" option to pam_success_if PAM module in sytem-auth (#133179)

• Mon Sep 13 2004 Jindrich Novy <jnovy@redhat.com> 4.6.4-3

  - corrected package dependencies #132411
  - regenerated glade.strings.h #132369

• Wed Aug 25 2004 Jindrich Novy <jnovy@redhat.com> 4.6.4-2

  - modified authconfig-gtk interface to fit lower resolution screens (#127175)
  - modified accelerators in authconfig-gtk (#125797)
  - updated package dependencies (#125306)

• Tue Aug 24 2004 Jindrich Novy <jnovy@redhat.com>

  - updated configure scripts
  - warnfixes and minor hacks

• Mon Jun 07 2004 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 4.6.4-1

  - tweak account management to fix #55193 correctly
  - require anything we might want to run in the gui subpackage because it
    doesn't warn about missing things and you don't have a terminal to see
    error messages about missing commands
  - properly display the domain in the GUI join dialog (#124621)

• Tue May 11 2004 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 4.6.3-1

  - omit the "ads" or "rpc" when calling "net join", Samba's smarter now (#122802)
  - properly warn about missing "net" (samba-client) and libnss_winbind and
    pam_winbind (samba-common) in text mode (#122802)

• Wed Apr 21 2004 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 4.6.2-1

  - learn all about pam_passwdqc
  - preserve arguments to pam_cracklib and pam_passwdqc
  - short-circuit PAM authorization checks for users with UID < 100
  - remove redhat-config-authentication as a way to invoke the GUI tool (#115977)

• Fri Feb 06 2004 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 4.6.1-1

  - fix man page: --enableldapssl should be --enableldaptls
  - make --enableldapssl an alias for --enableldaptls

• Thu Jan 08 2004 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 4.6-1

  - authconfig-gtk.py: require rhpl, which is required by the script (#104209)
  - both: require usermode (authconfig-gtk transitively), else leave a dangling
    symlink (#104209)
  - the great redhat-config-authentication/system-config-authentication renaming,
    as was foretold in the fedora-config-list archives

• Wed Jan 07 2004 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com>

  - preserve "compat" if it's used in /etc/nsswitch.conf

• Tue Nov 18 2003 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 4.4-1

  - add options for toggling krb5's use of DNS

• Mon Nov 17 2003 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com>

  - rework tui to include winbind options. there wasn't enough room in the old
    dialog to include the important options, so the whole thing's been reworked

• Thu Nov 13 2003 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com>

  - conflict with older versions of samba which expect different configuration

• Mon Nov 10 2003 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com>

  - initial support for configuring winbind

• Tue Oct 28 2003 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com>

  - make pam_cracklib requisite instead of required in generated PAM configs

• Wed Oct 22 2003 Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com> 4.3.8-1

  - rebuild with current translations

• Thu Aug 21 2003 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 4.3.7-2

  - make the tarball name include the release number

• Thu Aug 21 2003 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 4.3.7-1

  - authconfig-gtk: condrestart certain additional services if invoked with
    the --firstboot flag (half of #91268, needs cooperating firstboot)
  - translation updates

• Mon Jul 07 2003 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 4.3.6-1

  - translation updates

• Mon Jun 30 2003 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com>

  - add 'redhat-config-authentication' as an alias for authconfig-gtk
  - make authconfig-gtk exec authconfig if gui startup fails and it looks like
    we're connected to a tty

• Thu Jun 05 2003 Elliot Lee <sopwith@redhat.com>

  - rebuilt

• Mon May 05 2003 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 4.3.5-1

  - translation updates
  - close unusable file descriptors if locking fails

• Tue Feb 18 2003 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 4.3.4-1

  - learn how to toggle defaults/crypt_style in /etc/libuser.conf (#79337)

• Fri Feb 07 2003 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 4.3.3-1

  - look in /lib64 for modules for nsswitch and PAM by default on
    x86_64, ppc64, and s390x (#83049)

• Wed Jan 22 2003 Tim Powers <timp@redhat.com>

  - rebuilt

• Mon Nov 04 2002 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 4.3.2-1

  - update translations
  - update copyright strings (only took 10 months!)

• Wed Oct 23 2002 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 4.3.1-1

  - require a version of PAM (0.75-43) which supports $ISA
  - use $ISA in our own PAM config files

• Tue Oct 22 2002 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com>

  - add $ISA to the name of the directory in which we expect PAMs to be stored

• Fri Sep 20 2002 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 4.3-1

  - build with -fPIC, necessary on some arches

• Tue Sep 03 2002 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 4.2.11-3

  - update translations

• Thu Aug 29 2002 Trond Eivind Glomsrød <teg@redhat.com> 4.2.12-2

  - Update translations

• Fri Aug 23 2002 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 4.2.11-1

  - modify spacing and layout in authconfig-gtk

• Thu Aug 15 2002 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 4.2.10-4

  - translation updates
  - rebuild to pick up dependency changes

• Mon Jul 29 2002 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 4.2.10-3

  - include the userhelper configuration file
  - require sufficiently-new pam package in the gui subpackage

• Fri Jul 26 2002 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 4.2.10-2

  - actually include the icon in the package
  - translation updates

• Tue Jul 23 2002 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 4.2.10-1

  - use desktop-file-install (#69376)
  - include an icon for the menu item (#68577)

• Wed Jul 17 2002 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 4.2.9-2

  - own the pkgdatadir
  - pull in translation updates

• Mon Jun 03 2002 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 4.2.9-1

  - add --enable-experimental to enable some of that experimental code
  - add --enable-local to enable local policies
  - update translations

• Thu May 30 2002 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 4.2.8-7

  - use the current revision of python by default
  - get the intltool/gettext situation sorted out

• Thu May 23 2002 Tim Powers <timp@redhat.com>

  - automated rebuild

• Fri May 03 2002 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 4.2.8-5

  - remove bogus buildrequires left over from when authconfig-gtk was C code
  - buildrequires python-devel in addition to python (to build the python module,
    but we still need python to byte-compile the python script)

• Thu Apr 18 2002 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 4.2.8-4

  - add missing translations back in
  - convert .mo files at install-time

• Mon Apr 15 2002 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 4.2.8-3

  - refresh translations

• Wed Apr 10 2002 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 4.2.8-2

  - actually add the .desktop files

• Tue Apr 09 2002 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 4.2.8-1

  - refresh translations
  - destroy the python object correctly

• Tue Mar 26 2002 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 4.2.7-2

  - add the .desktop file

• Mon Mar 25 2002 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 4.2.7-1

  - rework the auth stack logic to require all applicable auth modules

• Fri Mar 01 2002 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 4.2.6-1

  - allow pam_krb5afs to be used for account management, too

• Mon Feb 25 2002 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 4.2.5-3

  - refresh translations

• Fri Feb 22 2002 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 4.2.5-2

  - refresh translations

• Tue Feb 12 2002 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 4.2.5-1

  - actually free authInfo structures when asked to
  - use pam_krb5's account management facilities
  - conflict with versions of pam_krb5 which don't offer account management

• Mon Feb 04 2002 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 4.2.4-1

  - add python bindings for the back-end
  - redo the gui so that it exercises the python bindings
  - take a shot at getting authconfig to work in a firstboot container

• Thu Jan 31 2002 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 4.2.3-4

  - rebuild again

• Wed Jan 30 2002 Tim Powers <timp@redhat.com> 4.2.3-3

  - rebuilt against new glib

• Wed Jan 23 2002 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 4.2.3-2

  - rebuild in new environment

• Thu Jan 10 2002 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 4.2.3-1

  - add some more experimental options
  - clean up the glade files a bit
  - don't destroy a garbage pointer on main cancel, destroy the main dialog

• Thu Jan 03 2002 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 4.2.2-2

  - bump release and rebuild

• Thu Dec 20 2001 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 4.2.2-1

  - make setting of experimental options only possible through
    /etc/sysconfig/authconfig, to keep accidents from happening
  - add some more support for experimental stuff

• Tue Dec 11 2001 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 4.2.1-1

  - fix setting of LDAP TLS option in authconfig-gtk
  - change Apply to Ok, Close to Cancel, because that's how they work

• Tue Dec 11 2001 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 4.2-2

  - add the glade XML file to the -gtk subpackage (fix from katzj)

• Mon Dec 10 2001 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> 4.2-1

  - port to glib2
  - move post code to the back-end
  - add a libglade GUI in a -gtk subpackage
  - set up to use userhelper