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Fedora Core 2: 2004-404 Critical System Users Management Update

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Calendar Grey November 10, 2004
Dist Fedora Esm H88
Fedora has issued a security update for the system-config-users utility, focusing on severe vulnerabilities in user management protocols.
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.

* Mon Nov 08 2004 Nils Philippsen <nphilipp@redhat.com> - 1.2.27-0.fc2.1

- some sanity testing to avoid deleting system directories when deleting a user

(#138093)

- eventually delete mail spool (#102637) and temporary files (#126756)

* Fri Nov 05 2004 Nils Philippsen <nphilipp@redhat.com>

- set password and confirm password entries (in)sensitive based on whether

account is locked or not (#131180)

This update can be downloaded from:

834432086989920afebc18a17defa1cf SRPMS/system-config-users-1.2.27-0.fc2.1.src.rpm

5624515a56a4a99130c6e372c9ece6e9 x86_64/system-config-users-1.2.27-0.fc2.1.noarch.rpm

5624515a56a4a99130c6e372c9ece6e9 i386/system-config-users-1.2.27-0.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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Update Instructions

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Product: Fedora Core 2
Name: system-config-usersVersion : 1.2.27
Release: 0.fc2.1
Summary: A graphical interface for administering users and groups

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