Fedora 17 Update: krb5-1.10-6.fc17

[updates at fedoraproject.org]

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2012-7257
2012-05-04 03:05:30
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Name        : krb5
Product     : Fedora 17
Version     : 1.10
Release     : 6.fc17
URL         : http://web.mit.edu/kerberos/www/
Summary     : The Kerberos network authentication system
Description :
Kerberos V5 is a trusted-third-party network authentication system,
which can improve your network's security by eliminating the insecure
practice of sending passwords over the network in unencrypted form.

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Update Information:

This update tweaks the default /etc/krb5.conf to enable the dns_lookup_kdc (use DNS to locate Kerberos servers for realms) setting by default, and comments out sample configuration which mentions a fictitious EXAMPLE.COM realm.
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Mar 20 2012 Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin at redhat.com> 1.10-6
- change back dns_lookup_kdc to the default setting (Stef Walter, #805318)
- comment out example.com examples in default krb5.conf (Stef Walter, #805320)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #805320 - Comment out example.com examples in default krb5.conf
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=805320
  [ 2 ] Bug #805318 - Default krb5.conf changes default behavior of using DNS for KDC lookups
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=805318
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update krb5' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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