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Fedora Core 3: FEDORA-2004-531 Moderate: Auth File Restrictions Update

fedora
Calendar Grey December 20, 2004
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora Core 3's ssh package modified to fix vulnerabilities and improve security measures for remote access tools.
add argument to pam_console_apply to restrict its work to specified files

Summary

PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules) is a system security tool that

allows system administrators to set authentication policy without

having to recompile programs that handle authentication.

This update resolves various minor bugs of pam package in Fedora Core 3

and adds a new parameter to pam_console_apply to constrain it's work

to the specified files.

- add argument to pam_console_apply to restrict its work to specified files

- #140451 parse passwd entries correctly and test for failure

* Thu Nov 11 2004 Tomas Mraz 0.77-66

- #77646 log failures when renaming the files when changing password

- Log failure on missing /etc/security/opasswd when remember option is present

* Wed Nov 10 2004 Tomas Mraz

- #87628 pam_timestamp remembers authorization after logout

- #116956 fixed memory leaks in pam_stack

abb99f86fd1a9ed109b11f8004699dd8 SRPMS/pam-0.77-66.1.src.rpm

b5246c33d3d12b5f82654efeee06fb55 x86_64/pam-0.77-66.1.x86_64.rpm

aef0118ec92d301309025c7b68b4f4a0 x86_64/pam-devel-0.77-66.1.x86_64.rpm

add741b0976f8b8057ecfe1404322767 x86_64/debug/pam-debuginfo-0.77-66.1.x86_64.rpm

394dee8ab21b39c055ca27b295b6dd6c x86_64/pam-0.77-66.1.i386.rpm

4bcffb03951f0fb215ebdfd34fcb7d7f x86_64/pam-devel-0.77-66.1.i386.rpm

394dee8ab21b39c055ca27b295b6dd6c i386/pam-0.77-66.1.i386.rpm

4bcffb03951f0fb215ebdfd34fcb7d7f i386/pam-devel-0.77-66.1.i386.rpm

2bfad85fcc36a808ce0883b17dafd623 i386/debug/pam-debuginfo-0.77-66.1.i386.rpm

This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can

launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.

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Update Instructions

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Name: pam
Version: 0.77
Release: 66.1
Summary: A security tool which provides authentication for applications.

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