Recommended update for google-compute-engine

Announcement ID: SUSE-RU-2017:3446-1
Rating: low
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Affected Products:
  • Public Cloud Module for SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 11-SP3

An update that has four fixes can now be installed.

Description:

This update for google-compute-engine provides minor fixes and enhancements:

  • Rename set_hostname to prevent naming conflicts.
  • Remove logging when checking OS Login status.
  • Support the enable-oslogin metadata key for activating OS Login when appropriate.
  • Improve packaging to restart services.
  • Add status option to the OS Login control file.
  • Fix system hang during VM shutdown.
  • JSON parser accepts string types for int64 values.
  • JSON parser casts uid and gid to unsigned integers.
  • Use curl to download metadata script files for SSL certificate validation.
  • Use netifaces for retrieving MAC address names if the import exists.
  • Ship the udevrules with the -init package only.
  • Generate SSH host keys when none are present.
  • Improve logging when activating OS Login.
  • Fix parsing logic for expiration time on SSH public keys.
  • Fix home directory creation PAM config.
  • oslogin feature is now enabled by the initialization code when appropriate.

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:

  • Public Cloud Module for SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 11-SP3
    zypper in -t patch pubclsp3-google-compute-engine-13388=1

Package List:

  • Public Cloud Module for SUSE Linux Enterprise 11 11-SP3 (s390x x86_64 i586 ppc64 ia64)
    • google-compute-engine-init-20171129-9.1
    • google-compute-engine-oslogin-20171129-9.1

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