RHEA-2011:1276 - Product Enhancement Advisory

Topic

Updated DeviceKit-power packages that add two enhancements are now available for
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

DeviceKit-power provides a daemon, API and command line tools for managing power
devices attached to the system.

This update adds the following enhancements:

• To allow administrators easily disable the suspend and hibernate actions on

the system, DeviceKit-power now checks the PolicyKit authorization before
deciding whether an action can be completed. (BZ#625880)

• This update introduces a new sub-package DeviceKit-power-devel-docs, which

contains developer's documentation for DeviceKit-power, so that it is now
possible to install the DeviceKit-power-devel package on machines with multiple
architectures without file conflicts. (BZ#727544)

All users are advised to upgrade to these updated DeviceKit-power packages,
which add these enhancements.

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
https://access.redhat.com/kb/docs/DOC-11259

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 - 625880 - respect PolicyKit privileges in can_{suspend,hibernate}

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)