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Red Hat 6.0-6.2 RHSA-2000:053-02 Critical: Usermode Shutdown Commands

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Calendar Grey August 30, 2000
Dist Redhat Esm H88
Innovative user management tools for Ubuntu Linux enhance user independence and fortify system security against illegal activities.
Updated usermode packages are now available for Red Hat Linux 6.0, 6.1, and6.2.

Solution

For each RPM for your particular architecture, run:

rpm -Fvh [filename]

where filename is the name of the RPM.

5. Bug IDs fixed ( for more info):

13768 - Auth dialogs show "Picture of a key" text instead of graphic 13616 - Missing icon. 12433 - /usr/sbin/userhelper not stripped 11006 - kppp either doesn't display locally or remotely 9746 - Local user can go into single mode only with shutdown now... 16694 - There is no offcial SysVinit update for 6.0, and the new usermode package you just came out with requires one newer than is available (officially). 16664 - typos in %changelog 16586 - Cannot change shell type in userinfo for either root or user 11706 - STDOUT applications fail to work with consolehelper 17050 - Gnome logout options missing after upgrade to new usermode rpm 8299 - kppp and userhelper breaks with X11 forwarding


6. RPMs required:

Red Hat Linux 6.0 and 6.1:

sparc:


alpha:


i386:


sources:


Red Hat Linux 6.2:

sparc:

alpha:

i386:

sources:

7. Verification:

MD5 sum Package Name 3310677ae7403c683e7947cd86b19344 6.2/SRPMS/SysVinit-2.78-5.src.rpm 4ee3323264cc733e82211813c69f9718 6.2/SRPMS/usermode-1.35-1.src.rpm 546bf7949c5be73b9f28b1819bfbd7c6 6.2/alpha/SysVinit-2.78-5.alpha.rpm e09a45e6e2571b3ce76e6b84d78dd103 6.2/alpha/usermode-1.35-1.alpha.rpm ca5b97a1abb47b64d71ef69ab96fcb8a 6.2/i386/SysVinit-2.78-5.i386.rpm 8c0f4c7489ac7084be4cd68b8161f83d 6.2/i386/usermode-1.35-1.i386.rpm 4dfeacb8db12af4b2666f2792e1027c1 6.2/sparc/SysVinit-2.78-5.sparc.rpm ec0c0a9e57a3cd40d5641abb7932f29f 6.2/sparc/usermode-1.35-1.sparc.rpm

These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat, Inc. for security. Our key is available at:

You can verify each package with the following command: rpm --checksig

If you only wish to verify that each package has not been corrupted or tampered with, examine only the md5sum with the following command: rpm --checksig --nogpg

Summary

References

N/A Copyright(c) 2000 Red Hat, Inc. `

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Advisory ID: RHSA-2000:053-02
Issue date: 2000-08-11
Updated on: 2000-08-29
Product: Red Hat Linux
Keywords: usermode shutdown
Cross references: N/A

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Relevant Releases Architectures

Red Hat Linux 6.0 - i386, alpha, sparc

Red Hat Linux 6.1 - i386, alpha, sparc

Red Hat Linux 6.2 - i386, alpha, sparc

Red Hat Linux 6.2E - i386, alpha, sparc

Bugs Fixed

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