Fedora 19 Update: lightdm-1.6.3-2.fc19

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2013-18630
2013-10-09 23:29:23
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Name        : lightdm
Product     : Fedora 19
Version     : 1.6.3
Release     : 2.fc19
URL         : https://launchpad.net/lightdm/
Summary     : Lightweight Display Manager
Description :
LightDM is an X display manager that:
* Has a lightweight codebase
* Is standards compliant (PAM, ConsoleKit, etc)
* Has a well defined interface between the server and user interface
* Fully themeable (easiest with the webkit interface)
* Cross-desktop (greeters can be written in any toolkit)

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Update Information:

Update to latest stable release as well as:
* fix some FD leaks
* fix wtmp registration
* move lightdm user home to /var/lib/lightdm
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ChangeLog:

* Tue Oct  8 2013 Rex Dieter <rdieter at fedoraproject.org> 1.6.3-2
- lightdm user home /var/lib/lightdm (instead of /var/log/lightdm)
* Mon Oct  7 2013 Rex Dieter <rdieter at fedoraproject.org> 1.6.3-1
- lightdm-1.6.3
* Sat Oct  5 2013 Rex Dieter <rdieter at fedoraproject.org> 1.6.2-2
- lightdm does not maintain login history using /var/log/wtmp (#1014285)
- Lightdm leaks 6 FDs (#973584)
* Thu Sep 12 2013 Rex Dieter <rdieter at fedoraproject.org> - 1.6.2-1
- lightdm-1.6.2
- Word-readable .Xauthority (#1007187, CVE-2013-4331)
* Fri Sep  6 2013 Rex Dieter <rdieter at fedoraproject.org> 1.6.1-1
- lightdm-1.6.1
* Tue Aug 20 2013 Rex Dieter <rdieter at fedoraproject.org> 1.6.0-11
- remove systemd preset (#963899)
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #973584 - Lightdm leaks 6 FDs
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=973584
  [ 2 ] Bug #1014285 - lightdm-1.6.2 (through at least lightdm-1.7.17) does not maintain login history using /var/log/wtmp
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1014285
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update lightdm' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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