RHEA-2011:0056 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

The certmonger package is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

Certmonger is a service which is primarily concerned with getting your system
enrolled with a certificate authority (CA) and keeping it enrolled.

This new package provides the certmonger utility which can monitor certificates
and warn the system administrator when those certificates are no longer valid.
If it has access to a private key which corresponds to a certain certificate,
and the certificate was issued by a CA which it supports, certmonger can be told
to automatically request a new certificate in case the certificate expires.
(BZ#578204)

All users requiring certmonger should install this newly-released package, which
adds this enhancement.

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/kb/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 - 578204 - add certmonger
• BZ - 636893 - certmonger fails to start on new install

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)