RHBA-2009:1609 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated yp-tools packages that fix a bug are now available.

Description

The Network Information Service (NIS) is a system which provides network
information (login names, passwords, home directories, group information)
to all of the machines on a network. NIS can enable users to login on any
machine on the network, as long as the machine has the NIS client programs
running and the user's password is recorded in the NIS passwd database. NIS
was formerly known as Sun Yellow Pages (YP).

These updated yp-tools packages fix the following bug:

• the yp-tools-debuginfo package did not contain debugging information,

even though the yp-tools package itself contained ELF (Executable and
Linking Format) objects. With these updated packages, the debuginfo package
now contains debugging information. (BZ#500642)

All users of yp-tools are advised to upgrade to these updated packages,
which resolve this issue.

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure that all previously-released
errata relevant to your system have been applied.

This update is available via Red Hat Network. Details on how to use
the Red Hat Network to apply this update are available at
http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 5 s390x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 5 ppc
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 5 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 500642 - yp-tools-debuginfo is empty

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)