News archives: Releases

Sudo RPMs for s390 & s390x
Sun, 1 Nov 2009Quest Sudo RPM packages are now available for s390 and s390x.

New Sudo packages for HP-UX
Tue, 1 Sep 2009
New Quest Sudo packages for HP-UX are available. They include the VGP fixes from the q95 release as well as a fix for an error finding libvas on HP-UX ia64 (bug #725).

New Sudo packages
Mon, 31 Aug 2009Quest Sudo "q95" packages are now available, which fix a problem with non-Unix group interaction with VGP. These are the same packages that have been available on request as snapshots, so customers should check whether they already have the current "q95" release.
New Authtest release
Tue, 25 Aug 2009Authtest 1.4.0 now includes Windows SSPI and Java GSSAPI interoperability test tools.

New linux-x86 Samba RPM
Mon, 24 Aug 2009A new linux-x86 Samba RPM is available, fixing a crash in smbclient. Other platforms were not affected.

New OpenSSH packages for Solaris
Wed, 19 Aug 2009New OpenSSH packages are available for Solaris that now allow the packages to propagate to zones other than the global zone.
DB2 sys-auth 3.0.0.27 released
Sun, 10 May 2009
Bugs fixed:
- Backups were failing because the forked child had a copy of the parent's file handles. The outcall request took a while, during which time having the handles open lead to backups unable to obtain exclusive access and failing.
- On Linux, use getgrouplist instead of getgrent. This means a Samba/winbind setup that doesn't advertise to the grent interface still gets the user's groups.
- Stop thread-unsafe behavior between fork and exec, this prevents hangs seen doing a large number of grants.
Changes:
- Debug now goes to /tmp/sys-auth.debug. Syslog is no longer used. Conf file/setting is the same as before, just 0/1 is no debug, 2+ is all debug.
New DNS Update package for Mac OS X
Tue, 21 Apr 2009A new DNSUpdate package is available for Mac OS X. It fixes a problem where updates would not occur when run via the launchd hook.

Quest OpenSSH 5.2p1_q1
Sun, 5 Apr 2009A new release of Quest OpenSSH is now available, version 5.2p1_q1.
db2_sys-auth 3.0.0.19 available
Thu, 26 Mar 2009
A new release of the DB2 system authentication plugin is available. This is a highly recommended update for anyone using versions 3.0.0.15 to 3.0.0.17. Those versions could allow unauthorized access due to the v9.5 signal handler removal change. This has been fixed.
db2_sys-auth 3.0.0.17 available
Sun, 8 Mar 2009
A new release of the DB2 system authentication plugin is available. This is a recommended upgrade for any customer using DB2 v9.5. There is a known incompatibility with DB2 v8.5 and v9.1. Customers using DB2 versions before v9.5 should continue to use db2_sys-auth 3.0.0.5. We are working on finding a way to support all versions in the same package.
Changes:
- Install script/doc re-written to be easier to follow.
- Fixed install_dash.sh not working.
- Fixed install.sh and install_das not working on Solaris.
- On AIX, when running ./install.sh <instance owner>, LAM is now the default.
- Now works with the AIX LDAP module as a user/group backend.
- Fixed auth/groups failure under load (threading bug)
- No longer installs a signal handler, fixes a case where SQL BackTrack was leaving defunct processes.
- Added a level 2 debug message listing which groups the user is a member of.

Samba 3.0.34 available
Tue, 24 Feb 2009Quest Samba 3.0.34 packages are now available. They include the latest stability bugfixes from the Samba project including the fix for winbindd failing after 5 minutes.
db2_sys-auth updated
Wed, 17 Dec 2008A new release of the DB2 system authentication plugin is available. It fixes a possible failure when a child process is reaped by a module other than db2-sys_auth.
db2_sys-auth updated
Wed, 10 Dec 2008A new release of the DB2 system authentication plugin is available. It adds support for DB2 9.5. Users of DB2 9.1 and 9.5 are strongly encouraged to upgrade.
dnsupdate released
Wed, 19 Nov 2008Unix hosts joined to an Active Directory domain can use their computer credentials to update their entries in DNS with quest-dnsupdate. This is especially useful for sites with non-Microsoft DHCP servers and secured DNS. This once-experimental project has recently moved into our supported category and accompanies the VAS 3.5 release.

vasidmap 1.1.0.181 released
Mon, 10 Nov 2008A new release of vasidmap, the VAS identity mapper for Samba, is now available. It includes fixes for common problems during installation such as problems detecting the domain SID and incorrect file paths. All users are encouraged to upgrade.
mod_auth_vas 3.6.4 packages
Mon, 10 Nov 2008mod_auth_vas packages for a variety of platforms are now available to ease the process of installing & configuring integrated authentication on common platforms. There are no changes to the authentication module, so customers with existing installations of mod_auth_vas 3.6.4 do not need to install one of these packages.
mod_auth_vas 3.6.4 released
Wed, 24 Sep 2008mod_auth_vas 3.6.4 is available. It fixes two possible crashes, a memory leak and the remote username being incorrect in some cases. See the change log (NEWS) for details.
DB2 sys-auth 2.0.0.9 released
Sun, 17 Aug 2008DB2 sys-auth 2.0.0.9 is a bugfix release fixing a problem where a missing authentication file would allow access.
Apache authentication (mod_auth_vas) 3.6.3 released
Thu, 24 Jul 2008mod_auth_vas 3.6.3 is available. It fixes a crash bug that occurs if the server cannot initialize properly, usually due to misconfiguration. It also fixes the distro detection for packaging, and includes pre-built packages for linux-x86 systems.