1.111. krb5-appl

1.111.1. RHBA-2011:0687: bug fix update

Updated krb5-appl packages are now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.

The krb5-appl package contains Kerberos-aware versions of telnet, ftp, rcp, rsh, and rlogin clients and servers. While these have been replaced by tools such as OpenSSH in most environments, they remain in use in others.

This update corrects the following bug:

kshd, the Kerberos-aware version of rshd, unnecessarily failed if the name of the local user account being accessed was more than 16 characters long. This occurred despite the user name being accepted by klogind, the Kerberos-aware version of rlogind. In this update, kshd was modified to accept user names with the length of up to 32 characters as accepted by klogind. (BZ#632442)

Users are advised to upgrade to these updated krb5-appl packages, which resolve this issue.