Issued:

2013-02-20

Updated:

2013-02-20

RHBA-2013:0486 - authconfig bug fix update

Synopsis

authconfig bug fix update

Type/Severity

Bug Fix Advisory (none)

Topic

Updated authconfig packages that fix two bugs 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 bug:

• Prior to this update, the authconfig utility used old syntax for configuring the idmap mapping in the smb.conf file when started with the "--smbidmapuid" and "--smbidmapgid" command line options. Consequently, Samba 3.6 ignored the configuration. This update adapts authconfig to use the new syntax of the idmap range configuration so that Samba 3.6 can read it. (BZ#862195)

• Prior to this update, the authconfig utility could write an incomplete sssd.conf file when using the options "--enablesssd" or "--enablesssdauth". As a consequence, the sssd daemon did not start. With this update, authconfig no longer tries to create the sssd.conf file without complete information, and the sssd daemon can now start as expected. (BZ#874527)

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

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

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• authconfig-6.1.12-13.el6.i686.rpm
• authconfig-gtk-6.1.12-13.el6.i686.rpm
• authconfig-gtk-6.1.12-13.el6.x86_64.rpm
• authconfig-debuginfo-6.1.12-13.el6.x86_64.rpm
• authconfig-debuginfo-6.1.12-13.el6.i686.rpm
• authconfig-debuginfo-6.1.12-13.el6.ppc64.rpm
• authconfig-gtk-6.1.12-13.el6.ppc64.rpm
• authconfig-6.1.12-13.el6.ppc64.rpm
• authconfig-debuginfo-6.1.12-13.el6.s390x.rpm
• authconfig-6.1.12-13.el6.src.rpm
• authconfig-6.1.12-13.el6.s390x.rpm
• authconfig-gtk-6.1.12-13.el6.s390x.rpm
• authconfig-6.1.12-13.el6.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 862195
• This content is not included.BZ - 874527

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information

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