Fedora 15 Update: usermode-1.107-1.fc15

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-4564
2011-04-02 02:43:22
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Name        : usermode
Product     : Fedora 15
Version     : 1.107
Release     : 1.fc15
URL         : https://fedorahosted.org/usermode/
Summary     : Tools for certain user account management tasks
Description :
The usermode package contains the userhelper program, which can be
used to allow configured programs to be run with superuser privileges
by ordinary users.

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Update Information:

Users in group 'wheel' can now authenticate using their own passwords
for most configuration utilities.
Updated translations.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #668731 - userpasswd(1) manpage fix
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=668731
  [ 2 ] Bug #688690 - allow wheel group to run usermode apps with user password
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=688690
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update usermode' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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