Issued:

2017-12-12

Updated:

2017-12-12

RHEA-2017:3410 - sshpass bug fix and enhancement update

Synopsis

sshpass bug fix and enhancement update

Type/Severity

Product Enhancement Advisory None

Topic

Updated sshpass packages that fix several bugs and add various enhancements are now available.

Description

This package provides a tool for non-interactively performing password authentication with "interactive keyboard password authentication" of SSH. Most users should use the more secure public key authentication of SSH instead.

Changes to the sshpass component:

• With this update, the sshpass package has been upgraded to version 1.06. This upgrade adds -P for overriding the password prompt, adds -v for verbose logging of the prompt detection prompt, allows packagers and compilers to change the default password prompt, and when -V is used the default password prompt will also be printed. (BZ#1494117)

Solution

Before applying this update, make sure all previously released errata relevant to your system have been applied.

For details on how to apply this update, refer to:

https://access.redhat.com/articles/2974891

Affected Products

Updated Packages

• sshpass-debuginfo-1.06-2.el7.x86_64.rpm
• sshpass-1.06-2.el7.src.rpm
• sshpass-1.06-2.el7.x86_64.rpm

Fixes

• This content is not included.BZ - 1494117

CVEs

(none)

References

(none)

Additional information

• The Red Hat security contact is This content is not included.secalert@redhat.com. More contact details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/.
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