Fedora 15 Update: libnss-mysql-1.5-15.fc15

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2011-4068
2011-03-25 06:41:16
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Name        : libnss-mysql
Product     : Fedora 15
Version     : 1.5
Release     : 15.fc15
URL         : http://libnss-mysql.sourceforge.net
Summary     : NSS library for MySQL
Description :
Store your UNIX user accounts in MySQL. "libnss-mysql" enables the following:

* System-wide authentication and name service using a MySQL database.
  Applications do not need to be MySQL-aware or modified in any way.

* Storing authentication information in a database instead of text files.

* Creation of a single authentication database for multiple servers.
  This is often referred to as the "Single Sign-on" problem.

* Writing data-modification routines (IE self-management web interface).

libnss-mysql is similar to NIS or LDAP. It provides the same centralized
authentication service through a database. What does this mean? Username,
uid, gid, password, etc comes from a MySQL database instead of
/etc/password, /etc/shadow, and /etc/group. A user configured in MySQL will
look and behave just like a user configured in /etc/passwd. Your
applications such as ls, finger, sendmail, qmail, exim, postfix, proftpd,
X, sshd, etc. will all 'see' these users!

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Update Information:

Update to MySQL 5.5.10, for various fixes described at http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/news-5-5-10.html

Add tmpfiles.d config file so that /var/run/mysqld is recreated at boot.

Note that this includes a soname version bump for libmysqlclient.so, from .16 to .18, and includes rebuilds for all affected packages.
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #658938 - mysql server fails to start
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=658938
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update libnss-mysql' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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