Remove attributions from NEWS file

Attributions were inconsistently added to only some of the NEWS entries,
and we have other places for attributing contributions.

1 files changed, 71 insertions, 71 deletions

diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
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@@ -8,8 +8,8 @@ This file documents the major additions and syntax changes between releases.
 	  protocol with a "+" suffix to also accept newer versions
 	Let check_http check HTTPS web sites via proxies
 	check_http: add timeout to performance data as max value
-	check_http: report certificate expiry date in UTC (pirtoo / ylfingr)
-	check_snmp: add IPv6 support (abrist)
+	check_http: report certificate expiry date in UTC
+	check_snmp: add IPv6 support
 	check_snmp's performance data now also includes warning/critical
 	  thresholds
 	New check_snmp "-N" option to specify SNMPv3 context name
@@ -18,14 +18,14 @@ This file documents the major additions and syntax changes between releases.
 	check_dig: expected response is now case-insensitive
 	New check_mailq -s option which tells the plugin to use sudo(8)
 	New check_nt "-l" parameters: seconds|minutes|hours|days
-	New -W/-C option for check_ldap to check number of entries (Gerhard Lausser)
+	New -W/-C option for check_ldap to check number of entries
 	check_radius now supports the radcli library
-	check_users: add support for range thresholds (John C. Frickson)
+	check_users: add support for range thresholds
 	Let check_fping now auto-detects IPv6 addresses
 	Support OpenSSL 1.1
 
 	FIXES
-	check_http: fix host header port handling (odenbach)
+	check_http: fix host header port handling
 	Let check_real terminate lines with CRLF when talking to the server, as
 	  mandated by RFC 2326
 	Fix check_procs on HP-UX
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ This file documents the major additions and syntax changes between releases.
 
 2.1 15th October 2014
 	ENHANCEMENTS
-	New check_hpjd -p option for port specification (abrist)
+	New check_hpjd -p option for port specification
 	New ./configure --with-qmail-qstat-command option to specify the path to
 	  qmail-qstat(8)
 	New check_ifstatus -n option to ignore interfaces by name
@@ -106,7 +106,7 @@ This file documents the major additions and syntax changes between releases.
 	Don't have check_http's -N option expect an argument
 	check_ide_smart could disable offline auto tests but could not re-enable them.
 	  For this reason all SMART command modes have been disabled.
-	check_dig: fix wrong IPv6 arguments order (Stéphane Bortzmeyer)
+	check_dig: fix wrong IPv6 arguments order
 	check_dig: make sure not to give up too early when a timeout is specified with -t
 	check_log: don't stumble over log lines that include a "%" character
 	check_nt: add UPTIME to perfdata
@@ -140,15 +140,15 @@ This file documents the major additions and syntax changes between releases.
 	Let OpenSSL load its configuration file (see the OPENSSL_config(3) man page)
 	Add performance data to check_apt
 	Add performance data to check_procs
-	Added -4/-6 options to check_dig (Ville Mattila)
+	Added -4/-6 options to check_dig
 	New check_oracle --connect option to perform real login
 	New check_nagios -t option to override the default timeout
 	New check_disk -f/--freespace-ignore-reserved option to ignore space reserved for root
 	New check_disk -N/--include-type option to limit the filesystem types to check
 	Allow for building the plugins in parallel
 	Add --without-{dbi,ldap,radius} options to ./configure
-	Made Verbose output of check_sensors compliant (Gabriele Tozzi)
-	New switch -E/--extended-perfdata for check_http to print additional performance data (Sebastian Nohn)
+	Made Verbose output of check_sensors compliant
+	New switch -E/--extended-perfdata for check_http to print additional performance data
 	New check_http -d option to specify a string to expect within the response headers
 	New check_http -J/-K options for client certificate authentication support
 	Add support for executing queries to check_pgsql
@@ -171,11 +171,11 @@ This file documents the major additions and syntax changes between releases.
 	Change the MAIL FROM command generated by check_smtp to be RFC compliant
 	Fix compilation of check_http without SSL support
 	Fix check_snmp reversed threshold ranges (backward-compatibility)
-	Fix check_snmp memory violation when using more than 8 oids (Robin Sonefors)
-	Fix check_apt security regular expression (Alex Bradley)
-	Fix check_http handling extra header (-k) containing semicolons (Richard Leitner)
-	Fix check_apt handling unknown exit codes from apt-get (Richard Leitner)
-	Fix deprecated imports of check_nmap.py (Fabio Rueda)
+	Fix check_snmp memory violation when using more than 8 oids
+	Fix check_apt security regular expression
+	Fix check_http handling extra header (-k) containing semicolons
+	Fix check_apt handling unknown exit codes from apt-get
+	Fix deprecated imports of check_nmap.py
 
 	WARNINGS
 	check_http behaviour of -k/--header changed since it does not seperate multiple headers by semicolons anymore. Use multiple -k switches instead.
@@ -184,34 +184,34 @@ This file documents the major additions and syntax changes between releases.
 
 1.4.16 27th June 2012
 	ENHANCEMENTS
-	check_nt UPTIME accepts warning/critical thresholds (Ryan Kelly)
+	check_nt UPTIME accepts warning/critical thresholds
 	check_disk_smb now allows spaces in share names (#990948, #1370031, Debian #601699)
 	check_http now uses standard threshold functions (enables floating point and ranges)
-	check_http now checks for and prints the certificate cn (hostname) in SSL certificate checks (Stéphane Urbanovski)
-	check_http now supports an optional -S/--ssl value to choose the SSL protocol version (#3066166 - Jason Lunn)
-	Add perfdata to check_ssh (#3244097 - Marco Beck)
-	New option to check_smtp to ignore failures when sending QUIT (#3358348 - Duncan Ferguson)
-	New check_by_ssh -F option which allows for specifying an alternative ssh_config(5) file (#2895334 - Sven Nierlein)
-	check_sensors now detects faulty sensors unless --ignore-fault is specified (Jan Wagner)
-	utils.sh now provides a check_range function (Alex Griffin)
-	Improved the performance of check_users (Marc Remy)
-	Add perfdata to check_disk_smb (Debian #654259 - Charles-Henri Larose)
+	check_http now checks for and prints the certificate cn (hostname) in SSL certificate checks
+	check_http now supports an optional -S/--ssl value to choose the SSL protocol version (#3066166)
+	Add perfdata to check_ssh (#3244097)
+	New option to check_smtp to ignore failures when sending QUIT (#3358348)
+	New check_by_ssh -F option which allows for specifying an alternative ssh_config(5) file (#2895334)
+	check_sensors now detects faulty sensors unless --ignore-fault is specified
+	utils.sh now provides a check_range function
+	Improved the performance of check_users
+	Add perfdata to check_disk_smb (Debian #654259)
 	Updated Nagios::Plugin perl module
-	Add warning threshold to certificate expiration checks of check_tcp/http/smtp (William Leibzon)
-	Add --perf-oids option for check_snmp (Jochen Bern)
+	Add warning threshold to certificate expiration checks of check_tcp/http/smtp
+	Add --perf-oids option for check_snmp
 
 	FIXES
-	Fix check_disk free space calculation if blocksizes differ within a disk group (Bekar - #2973603)
+	Fix check_disk free space calculation if blocksizes differ within a disk group (#2973603)
 	check_disk_smb now handles NT_STATUS_ACCESS_DENIED properly (Debian #601696)
 	Make check_snmp work more like v1.4.14 with regard to using special values (Timeticks, STRING) as numeric thresholds
 	Fix check_ldap overriding the port when --ssl was specified after -p
 	Fix check_procs where regex input of '|' would get displayed in output - now replaced with ','
-	Fix segfault in check_host when hostname returns multiple IP addresses (Sebastian Harl)
+	Fix segfault in check_host when hostname returns multiple IP addresses
 	Fix check_smtp and check_tcp where duplicate messages were displayed for certificate errors
-	Fix check_ping's parsing of ping6(1) output (#1894850, Debian #514588, Debian #662638 - Matej Vela)
+	Fix check_ping's parsing of ping6(1) output (#1894850, Debian #514588, Debian #662638)
 	Fix a check_dhcp bug which was triggered by checking Windows 2003 DHCP servers (#3503921)
 	Disable RFC4507 support, to work around SSL negotiation issues with (at least) some Tomcat versions
-	Fix performance data label containing spaces in check_snmp (Jochen Bern)
+	Fix performance data label containing spaces in check_snmp
 
 1.4.15 27th July 2010
 	ENHANCEMENTS
@@ -221,30 +221,30 @@ This file documents the major additions and syntax changes between releases.
 	New check_snmp --rate option to store differences between invocations. Saves state in PREFIX/var/{plugin}
 	check_snmp -l label option now also changes the perfdata label. See WARNINGS
 	check_snmp has an --invert-search option which reverses status of the string and regexp searches
-	check_http now displays the missing search string and the URL in the output when failed (Duncan Ferguson - #2999924)
+	check_http now displays the missing search string and the URL in the output when failed (#2999924)
 	Updated Nagios::Plugin perl module
 	Updated gnulib to June 2010
 
 	FIXES
 	Fix check_ircd binding to wrong interface (#668778)
-	Add proxy-authorization option to check_http (Marcel Kuiper - #1323230, Bryan Irvine - #2863925)
+	Add proxy-authorization option to check_http (#1323230, #2863925)
 	check_icmp now increment the sequence counter in each packet
 	Fix usage of repeated -o options in check_snmp
 	Try to detect arguments passed via --with-ping[6]-command and set options accordingly (#2908236)
-	Fix memory leak in check_http for large pages (Jimmy Bergman - #2957455)
-	Fix compilation with GCC 2.96 (Konstantin Khomoutov - #2977105)
+	Fix memory leak in check_http for large pages (#2957455)
+	Fix compilation with GCC 2.96 (#2977105)
 	Fix regression introduced in #1867716 where partially valid performance strings would not be printed anymore
 	Fix regression in check_http ssl checks on some servers - make SNI an option
 	Fix guest mode support in check_disk_smb
 	Fix check_disk_smb and check_ircd failures when run via ePN
 	check_ldap now allows for specifying an empty LDAP base
 	Fix compilation error of pst3 in Solaris 8
-	Fix check_radius returning OK on unexpected results (Craig Leres - #2911752)
-	Fix translations when extra-opts aren't enabled (Jan Wagner - #2832884)
+	Fix check_radius returning OK on unexpected results (#2911752)
+	Fix translations when extra-opts aren't enabled (#2832884)
 	Fix parsing of multi-line strings in check_snmp (broken in 1.4.14) and enhance output in such case (#2832451)
 	Fix detection of pst3 64-bit compile flags with Sun CC
 	Fix cmd_run overwriting the environment, which would break some commands that needed it
-	Allow check_ifstatus to accept version=2c - used to only allow version=2 (Brian Landers)
+	Allow check_ifstatus to accept version=2c - used to only allow version=2
 	Fix examples in check_disk, where it implied was possible to suffix unit values to warn/crit parameters
 
 	WARNINGS
@@ -257,71 +257,71 @@ This file documents the major additions and syntax changes between releases.
 	check_http has options to specify the HTTP method (#2155152)
 	check_users thresholds were not working exactly as documented (>= rather than >)
 	Updated tinderbox_build script to point to new tinderbox server
-	check_ifoperstatus -n flag now works as expected (sf.net #1569488)
+	check_ifoperstatus -n flag now works as expected (#1569488)
 	check_ifoperstatus now supports ifType based lookup for ifIndex
-	check_ups now sends a LOGOUT string (debian bug #387001)
+	check_ups now sends a LOGOUT string (Debian #387001)
 	Extra-opts (C plugins) now allows both '#' and ';' for comments (like N::P)
 	Extra-opts (C plugins) does not allow trailing comments anymore (like N::P)
 	Fixed dependency issue on libtap when ./configure --enable-libtap used. Warning: will install libtap
 	Fixed segfault in extra-opts under some circumstance when reading multiple sections
 	Fix long options parsing in check_disk, check_dns, check_mrtg, check_mrtgtraf and check_tcp
 	Add missing long options for check_nt (for use with extra-opts)
-	check_icmp now reports min and max round trip time perfdata (Steve Rader)
-	Fixed check_http bug where additional headers with redirection caused a segfault (Dieter Van de Walle - 2089159)
-	check_disk: make autofs mount paths specified with -p before we determine the mount list (Erik Welch)
+	check_icmp now reports min and max round trip time perfdata
+	Fixed check_http bug where additional headers with redirection caused a segfault (2089159)
+	check_disk: make autofs mount paths specified with -p before we determine the mount list
 	Fixed buffer overflow in check_ntp/check_ntp_peer (#1999319, Ubuntu #291265)
 	Re-bundled libtap as a built-in library (--enable-libtap): detects system library as pre-1.4.13 and does not install the built-in library anymore
-	Fixed check_mrtg returning UNKNOWN instead of OK (bug #2378068)
-	Fixed check_http behaviour: all check are now performed as long as a valid response is returned (sf.net #1460312)
-	check_http --onredirect=sticky follows using the same IP address (sf.net #2550208)
+	Fixed check_mrtg returning UNKNOWN instead of OK (#2378068)
+	Fixed check_http behaviour: all check are now performed as long as a valid response is returned (#1460312)
+	check_http --onredirect=sticky follows using the same IP address (#2550208)
 	check_http --onredirect=stickyport also follows the same port
-	Fixed coredump from check_nt when invalid drive is specified (#2179754 - Olli Hauer)
-	Fixed crash from check_nt when -H unspecified or given multiple times (sf.net #2731755, debian #521097)
-	Fixed passing of quotes in OID for check_snmp (#1985230 - Jan Wagner, patch by John Barbuto)
+	Fixed coredump from check_nt when invalid drive is specified (#2179754)
+	Fixed crash from check_nt when -H unspecified or given multiple times (#2731755, Debian #521097)
+	Fixed passing of quotes in OID for check_snmp (#1985230)
 	Fixed check_http sending HTTP/1.0 with v1.1 headers (#2638765)
 	Fixed check_http not timing-out on redirects
 	Fixed negate not printing the real timeout in ALRM handler when left to default
 	negate timeout result is now configurable
-	Fixed segfault in check_mysql with old slaves (#2696823 - Oskar Ahner)
+	Fixed segfault in check_mysql with old slaves (#2696823)
 	check_nt can return UNKNOWN on timeouts (-u)
-	Fixed typos for check_disk (Chris Pepper)
-	Fixed check_mysql* not using password set in my.cnf (#2531905 - Ben Timby) - Specify an empty password explicitly if you need to override it.
-	Fixed awk subst.in/subst script path error (#2722832 - Martin Foster)
-	check_http: Add SSL/TLS hostname extension support (SNI) - (#1939022 - Joe Presbrey)
-	Fixed wrong perfdata label for output traffic in check_mrtgtraf (#2654308 - Gavin Williams)
+	Fixed typos for check_disk
+	Fixed check_mysql* not using password set in my.cnf (#2531905) - Specify an empty password explicitly if you need to override it.
+	Fixed awk subst.in/subst script path error (#2722832)
+	check_http: Add SSL/TLS hostname extension support (SNI) - (#1939022)
+	Fixed wrong perfdata label for output traffic in check_mrtgtraf (#2654308)
 	Fixed check_by_ssh interpretation of quotes in -C parameter (#1985246, #2268675)
 	check_snmp now supports standard threshold ranges and doubles (floating numbers) in thresholds
-	check_fping now supports passing target timeout and interval to fping (#2347686 - Martin Foster)
-	Fixed SNMPv3 behaviour of check_ifoperstatus and check_ifstatus. Added -P to define privprotocol (#2343438 - Robin Schroeder)
+	check_fping now supports passing target timeout and interval to fping (#2347686)
+	Fixed SNMPv3 behaviour of check_ifoperstatus and check_ifstatus. Added -P to define privprotocol (#2343438)
 	check_ifoperstatus and check_ifstatus are now more user-friendly in case of missing arguments
-	pst3 compile fix for Sun Studio Compiler (Grant Byers)
+	pst3 compile fix for Sun Studio Compiler
 
 1.4.13 25th Sept 2008
-	Fix Debian bug #460097: check_http --max-age broken (Hilko Bengen)
-	Optimised pst3 for systems with large number of processes (Duncan Ferguson)
+	Fix Debian bug #460097: check_http --max-age broken
+	Optimised pst3 for systems with large number of processes
 	Updated Nagios::Plugin to 0.27
-	Fix Debian bug #479013: check_dig's -l is mandatory now (sf.net #1986306)
+	Fix Debian bug #479013: check_dig's -l is mandatory now (#1986306)
 	check_dig now returns CRITICAL instead of WARNING when no answer section is found
 	check_procs now captures stderr in external command and adds to plugin output
 	check_snmp now only prints perfdata for non numeric values (#1867716)
 	check_icmp now supports packet size modification
-	check_http -e now accepts a comma-delimited list of expected status codes (Sven Nierlein)
+	check_http -e now accepts a comma-delimited list of expected status codes
 	libtap now included with this distribution for easier testing. Run ./configure with --enable-libtap
 	check_ntp_peer/check_ntp_time used to show port in --help but ignored the argument - now implemented
 	Fix possible segfault in check_ntp_peer with deliberately invalid packets
 
 1.4.12 27th May 2008
-	Added ./check_nt -v INSTANCES to count number of instances (Alessandro Ren)
+	Added ./check_nt -v INSTANCES to count number of instances
 	New check_icmp -s option to specify the source IP address
-	check_dns now sorts addresses for testing results for more than one returned IP (Matthias Urlichs)
-	Fix segfault in check_ntp_time and (deprecated) check_ntp (Bug #1862300)
+	check_dns now sorts addresses for testing results for more than one returned IP
+	Fix segfault in check_ntp_time and (deprecated) check_ntp (#1862300)
 	check_disk should now work with large file systems (2TB+) on all archs that supports it
-	Fixed check_disk disk usage calculation when using --group=NAME (related to bug #1348746)
-	Fix help text of check_ntp* (Bug #1880095)
+	Fixed check_disk disk usage calculation when using --group=NAME (related to #1348746)
+	Fix help text of check_ntp* (#1880095)
 	Fix bugs and flaws in best offset server selection of check_ntp_time and (deprecated) check_ntp
 	check_ntp_peer now checks for the LI_ALARM flag
 	Sync to latest Gnulib (includes new floorf function)
-	check_pgsql now successfully builds with postgres lib v8.3 (Bug #1878972)  
+	check_pgsql now successfully builds with postgres lib v8.3 (#1878972)
 	check_procs now accepts --ereg-argument-array for a regular expression match to the argument array
 	Reverted back to using pst3 for Solaris systems. Fixed issues re: -m64 needed to compile on 64bit systems
 	If applicable, Gettext linked dynamically instead of statically
@@ -331,7 +331,7 @@ This file documents the major additions and syntax changes between releases.
 	check_mysql and check_radius now try clearing password in processlist just like check_mysql_query
 	check_mysql and check_mysql_query now support sockets explicitely (-s, --socket)
 	negate now has the ability to replace the status text as well (-s, --substitute)
-	Added performance data to check_ping (Christian Schneemann)
+	Added performance data to check_ping
 	Added support for --extra-opts in all C plugins (disabled by default, see configure --help)
 	Fixed passive option in check_by_ssh
 	On non-skipped stderr, check_by_ssh now returns UNKNOWN or worse (result from command) instead of always UNKNOWN.
@@ -350,9 +350,9 @@ This file documents the major additions and syntax changes between releases.
 	  is "-1" as the default range starts at 0. See Examples in --help output.
 	Fixed broken usage2 in check_snmp and check_cluster
 	check_cluster now accepts all valid characters in its thresholds ("-", "@", "~")
-	Fixed check_disk reporting OK if disk usage grows over 100% (bug #1348746).
+	Fixed check_disk reporting OK if disk usage grows over 100% (#1348746).
 	  The problem happens to be in Gnulib but a workaround have been implemented in check_disk.c
-	Fixed check_load argument handling when not passing triplets (bug #1831890)
+	Fixed check_load argument handling when not passing triplets (#1831890)
 	Fixed buffer overflow in check_snmp (CVE-2007-5623)
 	Tinderbox builds now runs tests in a verbose mode
 	Updated Nagios::Plugin to 0.22