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iscsitarget-1.4.20.1-1mdv2010.1.i586.rpm

New functionality of initiators.allow/deny
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Prior to version 0.4.18 the way initiators.allow and initiators.deny
worked was to read initiators.deny for any targets that matched and
to blacklist any initiator ip addresses listed there, UNLESS the
initiators' ip address is also explicitly allowed by an entry in
initiators.allow.

From version 0.4.18 on we are depreciating initiators.deny all
together in favor of an implicit deny on any failure to match
a target or initiator in initiators.allow. This provides all the
flexibility of the two files with one less file to worry about
misconfiguring.

For backwards compatibility while we phase out initiators.deny,
if initiators.deny exists then we will USE THE OLD METHOD, if it
doesn't exist then we will use the newer implicit deny method.

On new installations we will not install initiators.deny, but we
will still distribute the example version under the etc directory
in the archive. We will also not overwrite or delete existing
versions of these files on install.

Also, new versions of initiators.allow will have the default
"ALL ALL" line at the bottom to allow any initiator access to
any target.