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Fedora system-config-users Critical Password Management Vulnern 2021-650

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Calendar Grey November 4, 2004
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An enhancement for Fedora Core 2's system-config-users addresses issues related to user password expiration management.
system-config-users is a graphical utility for administrating users and groups

Summary

system-config-users is a graphical utility for administrating

users and groups. It depends on the libuser library.

* Tue Nov 02 2004 Nils Philippsen <nphilipp@redhat.com> - 1.2.26-0.fc2.1

- use libuser defaults for password aging (#130379, original patch by Dave

Lehman)

This update can be downloaded from:

df3f9cc497722032894528685981785a SRPMS/system-config-users-1.2.26-0.fc2.1.src.rpm

d8ef61d4c299708fa6e45e65ce5f73c4 x86_64/system-config-users-1.2.26-0.fc2.1.noarch.rpm

d8ef61d4c299708fa6e45e65ce5f73c4 i386/system-config-users-1.2.26-0.fc2.1.noarch.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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Nils Philippsen / Red Hat / nphilipp@redhat.com

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary

safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." -- B. Franklin, 1759

PGP fingerprint: C4A8 9474 5C4C ADE3 2B8F 656D 47D8 9B65 6951 3011

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Product: Fedora Core 2
Name: system-config-usersVersion : 1.2.26
Release: 0.fc2.1
Summary: A graphical interface for administering users and groups

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