Patch
oval:com.redhat.rhba:def:20141206
RHBA-2014:1206: virt-who bug fix and enhancement update (Moderate)
The virt-who package provides an agent that collects information about virtual
guests present in the system and reports them to the subscription manager. The virt-who package has been upgraded to upstream version 0.9, which provides a
number of bug fixes and enhancements over the previous version.
Notably, the permissions for the configuration file has been changed from
world-readable to root-only readable. This change is only for new installations
of virt-who; existing installations should be fixed manually by setting the
permission of the /etc/sysconfig/virt-who file to 600. (BZ#861552) This update also fixes the following bugs: * Prior to this update, the configuration file for virt-who contained incorrect
permissions and was world-readable, although this file can contain passwords. As
a consequence, any user could read the passwords from the configuration file. To
fix this bug, the permissions have been changed to be root-readable only, and
non-root users can no longer read passwords from the virt-who configuration
file. (BZ#1088756) * Previously, the virt-who utility did not report the state of virtual guests to
the Subscription Asset Manager (SAM) server. To fix this bug, the info() method
from libvirt has been used, and the state of a virtual machine is now reported
to the SAM server. (BZ#1124732) In addition, this update adds the following enhancements: * With this update, support for Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager
virtualization back end has been added to virt-who. Now, the user can use
virt-who on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.11.0 to gather host/guest associations
from Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization Manager. (BZ#1009401) * Although virt-who worked properly with VMware ESX software, the support for
VMware ESXi software was not functional due to differences between ESX and ESXi.
With this update, support for ESXi as virtualization back end has been provided
for virt-who, which can now use both ESX and ESXi as virtualization back ends.
(BZ#1078858) Users of virt-who are advised to upgrade to these updated packages, which fix
these bugs and add these enhancements. Create Date: 2014-09-16 Last Update Date: 2014-09-16
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