[SECURITY] Fedora EPEL 5 Update: mod_auth_shadow-2.3-2.el5
updates at fedoraproject.org
updates at fedoraproject.org
Sat Mar 15 19:49:14 UTC 2014
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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2014-0702
2014-03-01 06:33:45
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Name : mod_auth_shadow
Product : Fedora EPEL 5
Version : 2.3
Release : 2.el5
URL : http://mod-auth-shadow.sourceforge.net
Summary : An Apache module for authentication using /etc/shadow
Description :
When performing this task one encounters one fundamental
difficulty: The /etc/shadow file is supposed to be
read/writable only by root. However, the web server is
supposed to run under a non-root user, such as "nobody".
mod_auth_shadow addresses this difficulty by opening a pipe
to an suid root program, validate, which does the actual
validation. When there is a failure, validate writes an
error message to the system log, and waits three seconds
before exiting.
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Update Information:
correct behavior for cases where crypt() is returning NULL
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use
su -c 'yum update mod_auth_shadow' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
All packages are signed with the Fedora EPEL GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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