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Fedora EPEL Update Notification
FEDORA-EPEL-2009-0165
2009-07-30 17:32:59
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Name : munge
Product : Fedora EPEL 5
Version : 0.5.8
Release : 4.el5
URL :
http://home.gna.org/munge/
Summary : Enables uid & gid authentication across a host cluster
Description :
MUNGE (MUNGE Uid 'N' Gid Emporium) is an authentication service for creating
and validating credentials. It is designed to be highly scalable for use
in an HPC cluster environment.
It allows a process to authenticate the UID and GID of another local or
remote process within a group of hosts having common users and groups.
These hosts form a security realm that is defined by a shared cryptographic
key. Clients within this security realm can create and validate credentials
without the use of root privileges, reserved ports, or platform-specific
methods.
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Update Information:
MUNGE (MUNGE Uid 'N' Gid Emporium) is an authentication service for creating
and validating credentials. It is designed to be highly scalable for use in an
HPC cluster environment. It allows a process to authenticate the UID and GID
of another local or remote process within a group of hosts having common users
and groups. These hosts form a security realm that is defined by a shared
cryptographic key. Clients within this security realm can create and validate
credentials without the use of root privileges, reserved ports, or platform-
specific methods.
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References:
[ 1 ] Bug #506355 - Review Request: munge - Uid 'N' Gid Emporium
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=506355
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This update can be installed with the "yum" update programs. Use
su -c 'yum update munge' 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 EPEL GPG key. More details on the
GPG keys used by the Fedora Project can be found at
https://fedoraproject.org/keys
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