Recommended update for shadow

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2017:1472-1
Rating: low
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Affected Products:
  • Magnum Orchestration 7
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for the Raspberry Pi 12-SP2

An update that has two fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for shadow fixes the following issues:

  • Dynamically added users via pam_group are not listed in groups databases but are still valid. (bsc#1031643)
  • useradd(8) and groupadd(8) performance issue when using SSSD. Previously the entire possible UID/GID was iterated to find an available UID/GID. This could take long time over a network device. Instead, find available UID/GID locally, and then check only those values over network. (bsc#1003978)

Patch Instructions:

To install this SUSE update use the SUSE recommended installation methods like YaST online_update or "zypper patch".
Alternatively you can run the command listed for your product:

  • Magnum Orchestration 7
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-OpenStack-Cloud-Magnum-Orchestration-7-2017-907=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP2
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-DESKTOP-12-SP2-2017-907=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for the Raspberry Pi 12-SP2
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-RPI-12-SP2-2017-907=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP2
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-2017-907=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-2017-907=1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2
    zypper in -t patch SUSE-SLE-SERVER-12-SP2-2017-907=1

Package List:

  • Magnum Orchestration 7 (x86_64)
    • shadow-4.2.1-26.1
    • shadow-debuginfo-4.2.1-26.1
    • shadow-debugsource-4.2.1-26.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Desktop 12 SP2 (x86_64)
    • shadow-4.2.1-26.1
    • shadow-debuginfo-4.2.1-26.1
    • shadow-debugsource-4.2.1-26.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for the Raspberry Pi 12-SP2 (aarch64)
    • shadow-4.2.1-26.1
    • shadow-debuginfo-4.2.1-26.1
    • shadow-debugsource-4.2.1-26.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise High Performance Computing 12 SP2 (aarch64 x86_64)
    • shadow-4.2.1-26.1
    • shadow-debuginfo-4.2.1-26.1
    • shadow-debugsource-4.2.1-26.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 SP2 (aarch64 ppc64le s390x x86_64)
    • shadow-4.2.1-26.1
    • shadow-debuginfo-4.2.1-26.1
    • shadow-debugsource-4.2.1-26.1
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server for SAP Applications 12 SP2 (ppc64le x86_64)
    • shadow-4.2.1-26.1
    • shadow-debuginfo-4.2.1-26.1
    • shadow-debugsource-4.2.1-26.1

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