Fedora 8 Update: gdm-2.20.5-3.fc8

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2008-5712
2008-06-26 02:39:11
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Name        : gdm
Product     : Fedora 8
Version     : 2.20.5
Release     : 3.fc8
URL         : http://download.gnome.org/sources/gdm
Summary     : The GNOME Display Manager
Description :
Gdm (the GNOME Display Manager) is a highly configurable
reimplementation of xdm, the X Display Manager. Gdm allows you to log
into your system with the X Window System running and supports running
several different X sessions on your local machine at the same time.

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Update Information:

This update addresses a crash when there are more than 1000 users in NIS setups
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ChangeLog:

* Wed Jun 25 2008 Ray Strode <rstrode at redhat.com> - 1:2.20.5-3
- Fix bug in user capping code where it was adding a string to a
  list of user objects
* Mon Jun 23 2008 Ray Strode <rstrode at redhat.com> - 1:2.20.5-2
- Attempt to fix crash with non-utf8 usernames (bug 452567)
* Thu Apr 24 2008 Ray Strode <rstrode at redhat.com> - 1:2.20.5-1
- update to 2.20.5 (may help with 372151)
* Mon Mar 10 2008 Ray Strode <rstrode at redhat.com> - 1:2.20.3-2
- Cap user list to 1000 users (bug 383051)
* Tue Jan  8 2008 - Bastien Nocera <bnocera at redhat.com> - 1:2.20.3-1
- Update to 2.20.3
- Remove obsolete patches
* Fri Dec  7 2007 Ray Strode <rstrode at redhat.com> - 1:2.20.2-3
- increase X server startup timeout, since 10 seconds is too short
  for some configurations (bug 413961)
* Fri Nov 30 2007 Ray Strode <rstrode at redhat.com> - 1:2.20.2-2
- Add suspend patch from Philippe Troin <phil at fifi.org>
  (bug 387001)
* Tue Nov 27 2007 Matthias Clasen <mclasen at redhat.com> - 1:2.20.2-1
- Update to 2.20.2
* Thu Nov 15 2007 Ray Strode <rstrode at redhat.com> - 1:2.20.1-7
- Apply upstream patch to make xdmcp work better (bug 379511)
* Tue Nov  6 2007 Ray Strode <rstrode at redhat.com> - 1:2.20.1-6
- link tcp wrappers in (bug 363021), CVE-2007-5079
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References:

  [ 1 ] Bug #383051 - gdm not working with nis
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=383051
  [ 2 ] Bug #452567 - gdmgreeter crashes on accented name found via NIS
        https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=452567
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update program.  Use 
su -c 'yum update gdm' at the command line.
For more information, refer to "Managing Software with yum",
available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.

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