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Fedora Core 5 FEDORA-2006-201 Critical Shadow-Utils Management Update

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Calendar Grey March 22, 2006
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Critical notification for shadow-package on Fedora Core 5, improving user account and credential handling tools.
Updated package.

Summary

The shadow-utils package includes the necessary programs for

converting UNIX password files to the shadow password format, plus

programs for managing user and group accounts. The pwconv command

converts passwords to the shadow password format. The pwunconv command

unconverts shadow passwords and generates an npasswd file (a standard

UNIX password file). The pwck command checks the integrity of password

and shadow files. The lastlog command prints out the last login times

for all users. The useradd, userdel, and usermod commands are used for

managing user accounts. The groupadd, groupdel, and groupmod commands

are used for managing group accounts.

* FC5 update

* Fri Mar 10 2006 Peter Vrabec 2:4.0.14-4

- fix lrename() function to handle relative symlinks too

* Tue Mar 7 2006 Peter Vrabec 2:4.0.14-3

- set default umask to 077 in login.defs

* Mon Mar 6 2006 Peter Vrabec 2:4.0.14-2

- use lrename() function, which follow a destination symbolic link(#181977)

b2c9e91005f1a4198fd4286c792e2d833f543be1 SRPMS/shadow-utils-4.0.14-5.FC5.src.rpm

e9817689bc543e7655c831b205e62f09a3679638 ppc/shadow-utils-4.0.14-5.FC5.ppc.rpm

12e0f7f9159b760b012a399de0e42642eede49a8 ppc/debug/shadow-utils-debuginfo-4.0.14-5.FC5.ppc.rpm

27a88bf5b29df69a69ebf1db3009105913ad4cf3 x86_64/shadow-utils-4.0.14-5.FC5.x86_64.rpm

92984c115dfa1b6289f2c00ae82c903f24e0dc8f x86_64/debug/shadow-utils-debuginfo-4.0.14-5.FC5.x86_64.rpm

df13ffef232ee2638c773fc517d4da060e048844 i386/shadow-utils-4.0.14-5.FC5.i386.rpm

f52936f4e7dffa3e33bee1fd1d184d1469ff9990 i386/debug/shadow-utils-debuginfo-4.0.14-5.FC5.i386.rpm

This update can be installed with the 'yum' update program. Use 'yum update

package-name' at the command line. For more information, refer to 'Managing

Software with yum,' available at .

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Name: shadow-utils
Version: 4.0.14
Release: 5.FC5
Summary: Utilities for managing accounts and shadow password files.

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