-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2011-4068 2011-03-25 06:41:16 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
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! -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #658938 - mysql server fails to start https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=658938 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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/. All packages are signed with the Fedora Project GPG key. More details on the GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at https://fedoraproject.org/keys -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ package-announce mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/package-announce
