[Spacewalk-list] check /etc/nsswitch.conf after yum update

[Josh Preston]

I concur, I just received an errata last night regarding Bug Fix Advisory
- RHBA-2012:1160-1.

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Summary:
sudo bug fix update

Updated sudo packages that fix one bug are now available for Red Hat
Enterprise
Linux 5.


Description:
The sudo (superuser do) utility allows system administrators to give
certain
users the ability to run commands as root.

This update fixes the following bug:

* The RHSA-2012:1149 sudo security update introduced a regression that
caused
the permissions of the /etc/nsswitch.conf file to change during the
installation
or upgrade of the sudo package. This could cause various services to be
unable
to access the file. In reported cases, this bug prevented PostgreSQL from
starting. This update fixes the bug and the file's permissions are no
longer
changed in the described scenario. (BZ#846974)

All users of sudo are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which
fix
this bug.

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-- 
Joshua Preston ­ JoshPreston at dswinc.com
Enterprise Systems & Shoe Lover







On 8/14/12 2:54 AM, "Jan Pazdziora" <jpazdziora at redhat.com> wrote:

>On Mon, Aug 13, 2012 at 06:13:05PM -0400, Maria Iano wrote:
>> I just did a yum update. I checked /etc/nsswitch.conf before and
>> after. Before the permissions were 644. Afterwards they were 600. I
>> knew to look for this because I had already seen it happen on
>> another server. I thought I'd let other folks know.
>
>I assume you are hitting http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=5883. The
>issue however does not seem to be related to Spacewalk.
>
>-- 
>Jan Pazdziora
>Principal Software Engineer, Satellite Engineering, Red Hat
>
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