HP Tru64 UNIX and TruCluster Server Version 5.1.B-4 Patch Summary and Release Notes (13156)

• Improves the input validation for Client, Server and IP address fields for the pap-secrets
and chap-secrets file.
• Corrects a problem in curses mode in which AlphaServer Management Server tool incorrectly
displays selected nodes and loses column headers after viewing help.
• Corrects a condition that causes double clicking table headers in Manage CPUs and AMS
causes traceback.
• Corrects a class loader hang that occurs when run by non-root users.
• Corrects a condition that causes the setld SUITlet to fail when it is run from a browser or
SysMan Station.
• Corrects a userdel -D failure to a remove user from the /etc/passwd file on Enhanced Security
systems.
• Eliminates two warning messages from the SysMan Security Configuration tool. One appears
when changing the root password on systems with ASU installed and the other appears
when a user tries to trim auth logs before they are created.
• Corrects a problem in which running the usermod command with certain options, such as
-x distributed grace_limit, results in a “Cross-device link” error when the var and yp
directories belong to two different filesets, on a NIS master.
• Corrects a problem in which when a node in a cluster is rebooted, the SysMan Station
daemons running on each of the other nodes core dumps and a core file can be seen on the
root (/) directory.
• Changes the use of the configuration file /etc/svc.conf to /etc/nsswitch.conf to allow netgroup
data to be provided from LDAP rather than only from NIS.
• Corrects a problem that occurs when new hardware objects are inserted on a node in a cluster
and smsd on each node displays the newly added hardware object as being added to the
local node.
• Fixes a problem in which ntpconfig posts two events for each modification of the ntp.keys
file.
• Corrects problems in which SysMan drdmgr dumps tcl stack when a user tries to manage
devices or file systems of a cluster node that is down.
• Corrects a condition that causes failures when locking and unlocking multiple selected users.
• Modifies netconfig to avoid tcl stack dumps that occur when a user who has no HOME
directory tries to view the network daemon status of a cluster alias or a remote node or tries
to set up network interface cards on a remote node.
• Fixes a problem with the validation of the account expiration date in usermod.
• Corrects a problem in which the network wizard exits when running as nonroot.
Corrects a problem in which the Modify and Delete keys are disabled when using the arrow
keys to move through a list.
• Modifies SysMan SUIT so that suitlets such as Manage CPUs and Event Viewer can
successfully be launched in JAVA display mode.
• Fixes a java null pointer exception problem when starting a sms client whose initial view
window has been deleted.
• Fixes the cause of a core dump that occurs during a copy/paste operation of a Local/NIS
template
• Modifies the useradd and usermod commands to validate that the shell argument passed
is a valid executable file.
• Improves the input validation in SysMan pppconfig.
• Fixes a problem with the copy/paste operation of dxaccounts.
• Fixes a problem with the creation of new user using useradd.
• Modifies the SysMan Display Mounted File Systems application to correct a problem with
file system size.
3.4 Summary of Base Operating System Patches 139