Fedora 16 Update: sssd-1.6.0-2.fc16

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-10256
2011-08-03 19:11:07
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Name        : sssd
Product     : Fedora 16
Version     : 1.6.0
Release     : 2.fc16
URL         : http://fedorahosted.org/sssd/
Summary     : System Security Services Daemon
Description :
Provides a set of daemons to manage access to remote directories and
authentication mechanisms. It provides an NSS and PAM interface toward
the system and a pluggable backend system to connect to multiple different
account sources. It is also the basis to provide client auditing and policy
services for projects like FreeIPA.

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Update Information:

- New upstream release 1.6.0
- https://fedorahosted.org/sssd/wiki/Releases/Notes-1.6.0
- Add host access control support for LDAP (similar to pam_host_attr)
- Finer-grained control on principals used with Kerberos (such as for FAST or
- validation)
- Added a new tool sss_cache to allow selective expiring of cached entries
- Added support for LDAP DEREF and ASQ controls
- Added access control features for Novell Directory Server
- FreeIPA dynamic DNS update now checks first to see if an update is needed
- Complete rewrite of the HBAC library
- New libraries: libipa_hbac and libipa_hbac-python
- Build with _hardened_build macro
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #727571 - SSSD should build with the _hardened_build RPM macro in F16+
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=727571
  [ 2 ] Bug #681562 - id -G group resolution takes extremely long
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=681562
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update sssd' 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 Project 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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