RHBA-2009:1623 - Bug Fix Advisory

Topic

Updated conga packages that fix a regression introduced between Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 5.3 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4 are now available.

Description

The Conga project is a management system for remote workstations. It
consists of luci, a secure web-based front-end, and ricci, a secure daemon
that dispatches incoming messages to the underlying management modules.

This update applies the following bug fix:

• the behavior of the virsh command changed between Red Hat Enterprise

Linux 5.3 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4. In Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5.4, non-root users must add a "--read-only" flag to virsh commands for
them to work correctly. The ricci component of conga runs the "virsh
nodeinfo" command to determine whether a node can host a Virtual Machine
service and it does so as a non-root user.

As a consequence, when run under Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.4, running this
command returned no information and the luci front-end did not provide an
"Add a virtual machine service" option to Services in the Cluster tab for
clusters that were expected to offer such services. With this update, ricci
now runs a "virsh nodeinfo --readonly" command, in line with the changed
behavior, and the web-based front end will provide options to add virtual
machine services as expected. (BZ#537209)

All conga users are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
resolve this issue.

Solution

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

This update is available via the 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 High Availability for x86_64 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability for x86_64 5 ppc
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability for x86_64 5 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability for x86_64 5 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 5.4 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 5.4 ppc
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 5.4 ia64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability for x86_64 - Extended Update Support 5.4 i386
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability (for RHEL Server) from RHUI 5 x86_64
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux High Availability (for RHEL Server) from RHUI 5 i386

Fixes

• BZ - 537209 - Conga does not show the option to add a virtual machine service

CVEs

(none)

References

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