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                   Red Hat, Inc. Security Advisory



Synopsis:         New PAM packages available

Advisory ID:      RHSA-1999:040

Issue date:       10/13/1999

Updated on:       10/13/1999

Keywords:         pam security login NIS server

Cross references: N/A

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1. Topic:



Under some network configurations PAM (Pluggable Authentication Modules)

will fail to lock access to disabled NIS accounts.



2. Problem description:



The PAM packages shipped with Red Hat Linux 6.1/Intel may allow access to

locked NIS accounts on certain network configurations. If you have a Red Hat

Linux 6.1 workstation performing authentication against a NIS server then

you are at risk. Red Hat recommends that you upgrade the PAM packages on

all Red Hat Linux 6.1 workstations to the versions announced in this

advisory.



Previous versions of Red Hat Linux are not affected by this problem.



3. Bug IDs fixed  (http://developer.redhat.com/bugzilla for more info):





4. Relevant releases/architectures:

Red Hat Linux 6.1 for i386





5. Obsoleted by:

N/A



6. Conflicts with:

N/A



7. RPMs required:

ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.1/i386/pam-0.68-8.i386.rpm

ftp://updates.redhat.com/6.1/SRPMS/pam-0.68-8.src.rpm





8. Solution:



For each RPM for your particular architecture, run:

    rpm -Uvh 

where filename is the name of the RPM.





9. Verification:



MD5 sum                           Package Name

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9fd42c57d02ac039093b6f94132eee0e  SRPMS/pam-0.68-8.src.rpm

e8d5b9edf5dc9998ee19d91b7620f2ad  i386/pam-0.68-8.i386.rpm



These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat Inc. for security.  Our key

is available at:

         http://www.redhat.com/corp/contact.html

You can verify each package with the following command:

    rpm --checksig  

If you only wish to verify that each package has not been corrupted or

tampered with, examine only the md5sum with the following command:

    rpm --checksig --nogpg 



10. References:



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