RHEA-2011:0828 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

Updated talk packages that add one enhancement are now available for Red Hat
Enterprise Linux 5.

Description

The talk utility is a communication program that copies lines from one terminal
to the terminal of another user.

This update adds the following enhancement:

• The talk utility allows a user to specify the target user in the

"username.hostname" form. Consequent to this, previous versions of the utility
did not support usernames that contained a period. With this update, a new
command line option (that is, "-x") has been added to enforce the use of the
"username@hostname" form, so that the username can contain periods. As well, the
corresponding manual page has been extended to provide a complete list of
supported command line arguments. (BZ#574451)

All users of talk are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which add
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

CVEs

(none)

References

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