Issued:

2012-06-20

Updated:

2012-06-20

RHEA-2012:0982 - python-repoze-who enhancement update

Synopsis

python-repoze-who enhancement update

Type/Severity

Product Enhancement Advisory (none)

Topic

An updated python-repoze-who package that adds one enhancement is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

Description

The python-repoze-who package provides an identification and authentication framework for arbitrary Python WSGI applications and acts as WSGI middleware.

The python-repoze-who package has been upgraded to upstream version 1.0.18, which adds support for enforcing timeouts for cookies issued by the auth_tkt plugin via the "timeout" and "reissue_time" config parameters. (BZ#639075)

All users of python-repoze-who are advised to upgrade to this updated package, which adds this enhancement.

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/knowledge/articles/11258

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• python-repoze-who-1.0.18-1.el6.noarch.rpm
• python-repoze-who-1.0.18-1.el6.src.rpm

Fixes

(none)

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information

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