TSL-2002-0074-ppp

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Trustix Secure Linux Bugfix Advisory #2002-0074

Package name:      ppp
Summary:           Minor bugfix
Date:              2002-10-17
Affected versions: TSL 1.5

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Package description:
  The ppp package contains the PPP (Point-to-Point Protocol) daemon
  and documentation for PPP support.  The PPP protocol provides a
  method for transmitting datagrams over serial point-to-point links.

  The ppp package should be installed if your machine need to support
  the PPP protocol.

Problem description:
  Gerald Dachs found a problem in the /etc/pam.d configuration file, and his
  fix has been implemented in the TSL 1.5 package.


Action:
  We recommend that all systems with this package installed be upgraded.
  Please note that if you do not need the functionality provided by this
  package, you may want to remove it from your system.


Location:
  All TSL updates are available from
  <URI:http://www.trustix.net/pub/Trustix/updates/>
  <URI:ftp://ftp.trustix.net/pub/Trustix/updates/>


About Trustix Secure Linux:
  Trustix Secure Linux is a small Linux distribution for servers. With focus on
  security and stability, the system is painlessly kept safe and up to date 
  from day one using swup, the automated software updater.


Automatic updates:
  Users of the SWUP tool can enjoy having updates automatically
  installed using 'swup --upgrade'.

  Get SWUP from:
  <URI:ftp://ftp.trustix.net/pub/Trustix/software/swup/>


Public testing:
  These packages have been available for public testing for some time.
  If you want to contribute by testing the various packages in the
  testing tree, please feel free to share your findings on the
  tsl-discuss mailinglist.
  The testing tree is located at
  <URI:http://www.trustix.net/pub/Trustix/testing/>
  <URI:ftp://ftp.trustix.net/pub/Trustix/testing/>
  

Questions?
  Check out our mailing lists:
  <URI:http://www.trustix.net/support/>


Verification:
  This advisory along with all TSL packages are signed with the TSL sign key.
  This key is available from:
  <URI:http://www.trustix.net/TSL-GPG-KEY>

  The advisory itself is available from the errata pages at
  <URI:http://www.trustix.net/errata/trustix-1.5/>
  or directly at
  <URI:http://www.trustix.net/errata/misc/2002/TSL-2002-0074-ppp.asc.txt>


MD5sums of the packages:
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14c4145f4db6dc095e14fa9ce5355f9b  ./1.5/SRPMS/ppp-2.4.1-2tr.src.rpm
0db6b799ef2bffff716cb3b68545716c  ./1.5/RPMS/ppp-2.4.1-2tr.i586.rpm
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Trustix Security Team

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