Issued:
2009-04-22
Updated:
2009-09-02

RHBA-2009:0442 - authd bug fix update

Synopsis

authd bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

Topic

An updated authd package that fixes various bugs is now available.

Description

The authd package contains a small and fast RFC 1413 ident protocol daemon with both xinetd server and interactive modes that supports IPv6 and IPv4 as well as the more popular features of pidentd.

This updated authd package includes fixes for the following bugs:

  • on 64-bit architectures, a size mismatch between data structures led to an endlessly repeating pattern of output, though no error. This size mismatch has been fixed in this updated package so that authd works as expected.

  • attempting to connect to a Postgresql database using identd authentication resulted in error messages similar to the following in Postgresql's pg_log, where [user] is the username of the user attempting to connect:

    CESTLOG: invalidly formatted response from Ident server: "49795 , 5432 : ERROR :[user]

This authd error has been corrected so that users are now able to log in successfully, thus resolving the issue.

  • previously, installing the authd package resulted in the creation of a user named "ident" with a home directory of /home/ident. With this updated package, the "ident" user is still created, but, by convention, ident's home directory is the root ("/") directory.

All users of authd are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which resolves these issues.

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 This content is not included.http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/docs/DOC-11259

Affected Products

ProductVersionArch
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for Power, big endian5ppc
Red Hat Enterprise Linux for IBM z Systems5s390x
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Workstation5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5ia64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server from RHUI5i386
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5x86_64
Red Hat Enterprise Linux Desktop5i386

Updated Packages

  • authd-1.4.3-14.src.rpm
  • authd-1.4.3-14.i386.rpm
  • authd-1.4.3-14.ppc.rpm
  • authd-1.4.3-14.x86_64.rpm
  • authd-1.4.3-14.s390x.rpm
  • authd-1.4.3-14.ia64.rpm

Fixes

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information