-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora EPEL Update Notification FEDORA-EPEL-2009-0165 2009-07-30 17:32:59 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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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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. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References:

[ 1 ] Bug #506355 - Review Request: munge - Uid 'N' Gid Emporium https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=506355 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------

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/.

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