Fedora 13 Update: mingetty-1.08-6.fc13

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2010-17632
2010-11-11 21:40:37
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Name        : mingetty
Product     : Fedora 13
Version     : 1.08
Release     : 6.fc13
URL         : http://sourceforge.net/projects/mingetty/
Summary     : A compact getty program for virtual consoles only
Description :
The mingetty program is a lightweight, minimalist getty program for
use only on virtual consoles.  Mingetty is not suitable for serial
lines (you should use the mgetty program in that case).

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ChangeLog:

* Wed Nov 10 2010 Petr Pisar <ppisar at redhat.com> - 1.08-6
- Allow login name up to LOGIN_NAME_MAX length (bug #647143)
* Tue Oct 26 2010 Petr Pisar <ppisar at redhat.com> - 1.08-5
- Check chroot(), chdir(), and nice() (bug #635412)
- Open syslog with AUTPRIV facility
- Limit TTY name length to prevent buffer overflow (bug #551754)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #647143 - If console login, username with about 100 chars are not prompted for a passwd
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=647143
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update mingetty' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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