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Red Hat Product Errata RHBA-2012:0931 - Bug Fix Advisory
Issued:
2012-06-20
Updated:
2012-06-20

RHBA-2012:0931 - Bug Fix Advisory

  • Overview
  • Updated Packages

Synopsis

authconfig bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory

Red Hat Insights patch analysis

Identify and remediate systems affected by this advisory.

View affected systems

Topic

Updated authconfig packages that fix multiple bugs and add two enhancements are
now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The authconfig packages provide a command line utility and a GUI application
that can configure a workstation to be a client for certain network user
information and authentication schemes, and other user information and
authentication related options.

This update fixes the following bugs:

  • Prior to this update, SSSD configuration files failed to parse if the files

were not correctly formatted. As a consequence, the authconfig utility could
abort unexpectedly. With this update, the error is correctly handled, the
configuration file is backed up, and a new file is created. (BZ#689717)

  • Prior to this update, the man page "authconfig(8)" referred to non-existing

obsolete configuration files. This update modifies the man page to point to
configuration files that are currently modified by authconfig. (BZ#708850)

  • Prior to this update, a deprecated "krb_kdcip" option was set instead of the

"krb5_server" option when the SSSD configuration was updated. This update
modifies the SSSD configuration setting to use the "krb5_server" option to set
the Kerberos KDC server address. (BZ#749700)

  • Prior to this update, the authconfig command always returned the exit value

"1" when the "--savebackup" option was used, due to handling of nonexisting
configuration files on the system. With this update, the exit value is "0" if
the configuration backup succeeds even if some configuration files which can be
handled by authconfig, are not present on the system. (BZ#755975)

This update also adds the following enhancements:

  • Prior to this update, the authconfig utility did not support the SSSD

configuration with the IPA backend. This update allows to join an IPAv2 domain
with the system via the ipa-client-install command. (BZ#731094)

  • With this update, the nss_sss module is also used in the "services" entry of

the nsswitch.conf file when configuring this file. (BZ#804615)

All users of authconfig are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
fix these bugs and add these enhancements.

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
https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/articles/11258

Affected Products

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6 s390x
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6 ppc64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 x86_64
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6 i386
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6 s390x

Fixes

  • BZ - 689717 - Catch parsing errors from SSSD config parser correctly
  • BZ - 731094 - Authconfig should support configuring SSSD with IPA back end
  • BZ - 749700 - configuration uses the deprecated option 'krb5_kdcip' to specify the KDC
  • BZ - 755975 - authconfig --savebackup returns 1 instead of 0
  • BZ - 804615 - AUthconfig should add 'sss' to the 'services' line of nsswitch.conf

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Note: More recent versions of these packages may be available. Click a package name for more details.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server 6

SRPM
authconfig-6.1.12-10.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: afbd6fc1b82b106654e8f32b1402473985b013c63fe476868cd0314c016eb236
x86_64
authconfig-6.1.12-10.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: d4d853510e6dd0271588b744dea88838211259c02ae28016422e8285650f3e14
authconfig-debuginfo-6.1.12-10.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 98f3c1ad0892064588f41b3ad7a6dac2351f5d3e6b2a9763c7d4ab07fc5143fc
authconfig-gtk-6.1.12-10.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 88e71565e40c3d46b9deff9ba861cb5ab2d50439f4566a92d879cd35f2700077
i386
authconfig-6.1.12-10.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 25fb8824765e1597766b00b9194880e1cc758bcd0236cfe4a3d9f18baefa551c
authconfig-debuginfo-6.1.12-10.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 92d075fbf2296f33133c51bd5790d7c80f1ad0dfc79585c715798cb7e0d52316
authconfig-gtk-6.1.12-10.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: b61fb1a709f819859a3d754736967b9ff8fe6484a6ae23f2c77219860d9539bd

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support 6

SRPM
authconfig-6.1.12-10.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: afbd6fc1b82b106654e8f32b1402473985b013c63fe476868cd0314c016eb236
x86_64
authconfig-6.1.12-10.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: d4d853510e6dd0271588b744dea88838211259c02ae28016422e8285650f3e14
authconfig-debuginfo-6.1.12-10.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 98f3c1ad0892064588f41b3ad7a6dac2351f5d3e6b2a9763c7d4ab07fc5143fc
authconfig-gtk-6.1.12-10.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 88e71565e40c3d46b9deff9ba861cb5ab2d50439f4566a92d879cd35f2700077
i386
authconfig-6.1.12-10.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 25fb8824765e1597766b00b9194880e1cc758bcd0236cfe4a3d9f18baefa551c
authconfig-debuginfo-6.1.12-10.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 92d075fbf2296f33133c51bd5790d7c80f1ad0dfc79585c715798cb7e0d52316
authconfig-gtk-6.1.12-10.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: b61fb1a709f819859a3d754736967b9ff8fe6484a6ae23f2c77219860d9539bd

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation 6

SRPM
authconfig-6.1.12-10.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: afbd6fc1b82b106654e8f32b1402473985b013c63fe476868cd0314c016eb236
x86_64
authconfig-6.1.12-10.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: d4d853510e6dd0271588b744dea88838211259c02ae28016422e8285650f3e14
authconfig-debuginfo-6.1.12-10.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 98f3c1ad0892064588f41b3ad7a6dac2351f5d3e6b2a9763c7d4ab07fc5143fc
authconfig-gtk-6.1.12-10.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 88e71565e40c3d46b9deff9ba861cb5ab2d50439f4566a92d879cd35f2700077
i386
authconfig-6.1.12-10.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 25fb8824765e1597766b00b9194880e1cc758bcd0236cfe4a3d9f18baefa551c
authconfig-debuginfo-6.1.12-10.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 92d075fbf2296f33133c51bd5790d7c80f1ad0dfc79585c715798cb7e0d52316
authconfig-gtk-6.1.12-10.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: b61fb1a709f819859a3d754736967b9ff8fe6484a6ae23f2c77219860d9539bd

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop 6

SRPM
authconfig-6.1.12-10.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: afbd6fc1b82b106654e8f32b1402473985b013c63fe476868cd0314c016eb236
x86_64
authconfig-6.1.12-10.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: d4d853510e6dd0271588b744dea88838211259c02ae28016422e8285650f3e14
authconfig-debuginfo-6.1.12-10.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 98f3c1ad0892064588f41b3ad7a6dac2351f5d3e6b2a9763c7d4ab07fc5143fc
authconfig-gtk-6.1.12-10.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 88e71565e40c3d46b9deff9ba861cb5ab2d50439f4566a92d879cd35f2700077
i386
authconfig-6.1.12-10.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 25fb8824765e1597766b00b9194880e1cc758bcd0236cfe4a3d9f18baefa551c
authconfig-debuginfo-6.1.12-10.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 92d075fbf2296f33133c51bd5790d7c80f1ad0dfc79585c715798cb7e0d52316
authconfig-gtk-6.1.12-10.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: b61fb1a709f819859a3d754736967b9ff8fe6484a6ae23f2c77219860d9539bd

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems 6

SRPM
authconfig-6.1.12-10.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: afbd6fc1b82b106654e8f32b1402473985b013c63fe476868cd0314c016eb236
s390x
authconfig-6.1.12-10.el6.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 4baf966ae5b1a26c466090f38f438494126ab7742e20f7109793f7a2b928e3d3
authconfig-debuginfo-6.1.12-10.el6.s390x.rpm SHA-256: cbfaa8480734205b006271121b4622c3450fedb6aa489a46c90ec3611ad6af59
authconfig-gtk-6.1.12-10.el6.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 34ea126a96b67d4b0819f6e54c55f3062831fc5139e1de002e16387cef1648db

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian 6

SRPM
authconfig-6.1.12-10.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: afbd6fc1b82b106654e8f32b1402473985b013c63fe476868cd0314c016eb236
ppc64
authconfig-6.1.12-10.el6.ppc64.rpm SHA-256: 54393f558343828c999714ebc02ef95a90a0cc4797594d695f2b094c61e64c56
authconfig-debuginfo-6.1.12-10.el6.ppc64.rpm SHA-256: d1b7c5584e8fb108a6f0581369dc29250235a89465f13041e9ed18100ea0575b
authconfig-gtk-6.1.12-10.el6.ppc64.rpm SHA-256: 3f846eb0dfd9e969f10774410efa6765653be04efc72f85ff366a27f4c00cdc7

Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Scientific Computing 6

SRPM
authconfig-6.1.12-10.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: afbd6fc1b82b106654e8f32b1402473985b013c63fe476868cd0314c016eb236
x86_64
authconfig-6.1.12-10.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: d4d853510e6dd0271588b744dea88838211259c02ae28016422e8285650f3e14
authconfig-debuginfo-6.1.12-10.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 98f3c1ad0892064588f41b3ad7a6dac2351f5d3e6b2a9763c7d4ab07fc5143fc
authconfig-debuginfo-6.1.12-10.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 98f3c1ad0892064588f41b3ad7a6dac2351f5d3e6b2a9763c7d4ab07fc5143fc
authconfig-gtk-6.1.12-10.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 88e71565e40c3d46b9deff9ba861cb5ab2d50439f4566a92d879cd35f2700077

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI 6

SRPM
authconfig-6.1.12-10.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: afbd6fc1b82b106654e8f32b1402473985b013c63fe476868cd0314c016eb236
x86_64
authconfig-6.1.12-10.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: d4d853510e6dd0271588b744dea88838211259c02ae28016422e8285650f3e14
authconfig-debuginfo-6.1.12-10.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 98f3c1ad0892064588f41b3ad7a6dac2351f5d3e6b2a9763c7d4ab07fc5143fc
authconfig-gtk-6.1.12-10.el6.x86_64.rpm SHA-256: 88e71565e40c3d46b9deff9ba861cb5ab2d50439f4566a92d879cd35f2700077
i386
authconfig-6.1.12-10.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 25fb8824765e1597766b00b9194880e1cc758bcd0236cfe4a3d9f18baefa551c
authconfig-debuginfo-6.1.12-10.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: 92d075fbf2296f33133c51bd5790d7c80f1ad0dfc79585c715798cb7e0d52316
authconfig-gtk-6.1.12-10.el6.i686.rpm SHA-256: b61fb1a709f819859a3d754736967b9ff8fe6484a6ae23f2c77219860d9539bd

Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server - Extended Life Cycle Support (for IBM z Systems) 6

SRPM
authconfig-6.1.12-10.el6.src.rpm SHA-256: afbd6fc1b82b106654e8f32b1402473985b013c63fe476868cd0314c016eb236
s390x
authconfig-6.1.12-10.el6.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 4baf966ae5b1a26c466090f38f438494126ab7742e20f7109793f7a2b928e3d3
authconfig-debuginfo-6.1.12-10.el6.s390x.rpm SHA-256: cbfaa8480734205b006271121b4622c3450fedb6aa489a46c90ec3611ad6af59
authconfig-gtk-6.1.12-10.el6.s390x.rpm SHA-256: 34ea126a96b67d4b0819f6e54c55f3062831fc5139e1de002e16387cef1648db

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