News archives
DB2 sys-auth 2.0.0.5 released
Mon, 9 Jun 2008DB2 sys-auth 2.0.0.5 is a major update release, adding support for password changing and better reporting of accounts in need of password changes.
—David Leonard
Apache authentication (mod_auth_vas) 3.6.1
Sun, 6 Apr 2008A minor update to mod_auth_vas has been released. It fixes a bug where the server would hang if the "AuthVasRemoteUserMap ldap-attr" option was used. There are no other changes.
—Ted Percival
Quest-samba 3.0.28 for AIX now available
Mon, 31 Mar 2008Quest-Samba 3.0.28 for AIX 5.1, 5.2, 5.3 is now available. This build (q300) incorporates an AIX-specific workaround that caused previous builds of Quest-Samba 3.0.28 to fail on the AIX platform.
—David Leonard
Apache authentication (mod_auth_vas) 3.6.0
Sun, 30 Mar 2008Quest's Apache authentication module, mod_auth_vas, has a new release: version 3.6.0. Changes include better performance with Basic authentication and support for proxy-mode authentication. See the NEWS file for a full list of changes.
—Ted Percival
Quest-samba Jan 2008 released
Sun, 20 Jan 2008quest-samba-3.0.28 and quest-vasidmap-0.10.0 (a SID alignment bridge) are now available for download. quest-samba-3.0.28.291 has known problems on AIX 5.1. Samba 3.0.28 fixes a security and some reliability issues. vasidmap 0.10.0 adds additional functionality.
—David Leonard
mod_auth_vas 3.5.3 released
Tue, 18 Dec 2007mod_auth_vas 3.5.3 is available. It fixes problems compiling introduced in 3.5.2 and a problem with the "Require container" option. Unaffected users need not upgrade.
—Ted Percival
mod_auth_vas 3.5.2 released
Sun, 16 Dec 2007mod_auth_vas 3.5.2 is now available. It fixes a security bug with the "Require unix-group" option (bug #445). All users are encouraged to upgrade. A minimal patch is attached to the bug report.
—Ted Percival
mod_auth_vas 3.5.1 released
Thu, 18 Oct 2007mod_auth_vas 3.5.1 is now available. It is a minor update containing a fix for potential VAS_ERR_CRED_NEEDED errors during authentication.
—Ted Percival
Quest OpenSSH 4.7p1 released
Tue, 25 Sep 2007A minor security and bugfix and feature release of Quest Openssh is now available. This release fixes an X11 security issue, adds support for Solaris NIS+ pam_dhkeys module, moves manual pages back into the main package, and improves PAM config file initialisation.
—David Leonard
mod_auth_vas 3.5.0 released
Sun, 12 Aug 2007mod_auth_vas 3.5.0 is now available. It includes new options to configure the contents of the REMOTE_USER variable, the ability to enable Negotiate authentication on a per-subnet basis, and a configurable built-in error page to display when clients try to use unsupported NTLM authentication. There is also the usual set of bug fixes and improvements to the build & setup scripts. See the change log (NEWS file) for a full list of changes.
—Ted Percival
Quest OpenSSH 4.6p1 released
Tue, 31 Jul 2007A minor bugfix and feature release of Quest Openssh is now available.
—David Leonard
dnsupdate 1.2.1 release
Tue, 10 Jul 2007A minor bugfix release of Quest dnsupdate is now available.
—David Leonard
Quest Sudo 1.6.8p12q93 release
Tue, 3 Jul 2007Quest Sudo 1.6.8p12q93 has been released. The biggest change is that it now operates (with reduced functionality) when VAS is not installed. There are also improved log messages and is more efficient when used with NIS+. See the CHANGES.Quest file for a full list of changes.
—Ted Percival
coolkey-1.1.0p1 packages available
Mon, 25 Jun 2007CoolKey packages are now available. They contain our fixes for VAS smartcard use with CAC on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5.
—David Leonard
samba 3.0.25a packages available
Tue, 12 Jun 2007Binary packages for Quest Samba 3.0.25a and vasidmap have been released with significant bug fixes, features and security fixes as part of the Jun 2007 Quest Samba suite.
—David Leonard
Quest PuTTY 0.60_q1 release
Tue, 5 Jun 2007Quest PuTTY 0.60_q1 is our latest release of GSSAPI-enabled PuTTY. This release features minor bug fixes, reliability and user interface improvements.
—David Leonard
mod_auth_vas 3.4.0 release
Thu, 26 Apr 2007mod_auth_vas 3.4.0 has been released. It includes a new AuthVasLocalizeRemoteUser option, an improved setup script, and many bug fixes. See the NEWS file for a full list of changes.
—Ted Percival
XScreenSaver with full PAM support
Wed, 25 Apr 2007XScreenSaver 5.02 has been released, which now includes full PAM conversation support - useful for people using smart cards for login or those who rarely log out but still have to change passwords periodically. This full PAM conversation support was proudly contributed by Quest Software.
—Ted Percival
Pluggable GSSAPI: alpha release
Tue, 10 Apr 2007The pluggable GSSAPI is a GSSAPI library that can load and mix mechanisms from different vendor GSSAPI libraries. This is an early experimental release for comment.
—David Leonard
DB2 sys-auth 1.1.0
Thu, 5 Apr 2007DB2 sys-auth 1.1.0 is a minor update release, adding support for DAS users and installer improvements.
—David Leonard
Quest PuTTY 0.59_q1 release
Wed, 4 Apr 2007Quest PuTTY 0.59_q1 is our latest release of GSSAPI-enabled PuTTY. This release features improvements in speed, reliability and user interface.
—David Leonard
DB2 sys-auth 1.0.14
Mon, 19 Feb 2007DB2 sys-auth 1.0.14 is a bugfix update.
—David Leonard
Samba 3.0.24 packages available
Wed, 7 Feb 2007New packages for Samba are now available. This is a security fix release only.
—David Leonard
Samba 3.0.23d packages available
Mon, 22 Jan 2007New packages for Samba and vasidmap are now available. Samba carries some stability fixes, while quest-vasidmap contains some bugfixes, more documentation and checks.
—David Leonard
Quest-PuTTY 0.58_q2 available
Wed, 20 Dec 2006Quest PuTTY now supports Group Policy and gss-keyex authentication; and contains improvements on user interface, documentation, installer and code security.
—David Leonard
Discussion forums now open
Wed, 6 Dec 2006The new "Vintela Inside" community forums are more relaxed, active, searchable, cover more Vintela products and are simply prettier than our mailing lists. Try one today!
—David Leonard
VAS Apps 0.7.2q6 available
Tue, 5 Dec 2006VAS Apps 0.7.2q6 has been released. It is a bugfix release for the FTP server. Fixes include active transfers, credential cache tracking, and username truncation.
—Ted Percival
Quest OpenSSH 4.5p1_q1 available
Sun, 3 Dec 2006A new version of OpenSSH, the secure shell tool, has been released with improvements in security and packaging.
—David Leonard
SAMBA 3.0.23c and vasidmapd 0.9.7 available
Fri, 20 Oct 2006Binary packages of SAMBA 3.0.23c with VAS integration have been released with greater platform coverage. Vasidmap release fixes a bug where some user SIDs would be detected as groups.
—David Leonard
Quest OpenSSH 4.4p1_q89 available
Fri, 20 Oct 2006OpenSSH, the secure shell tool, has been released with improvements in security, authentication, installation, defaults and platform coverage.
—David Leonard
Quest Sudo 1.6.8p12q58 available
Thu, 19 Oct 2006Quest Sudo - a new project - has been released at initial version 1.6.8p12q58. This release adds the newgrp-style group changing feature as well as support for matching non-VAS-enabled groups.
—Ted Percival
mod_auth_vas 3.3.0 available
Wed, 4 Oct 2006A new release of mod_auth_vas is out with many improvements and fixes. Improvements include support for matching local groups, credential delegation, two segfault fixes, improved locking, and a fix for credential establishment on startup. See the NEWS file in the source archive for a full list.
—Ted Percival
quest-samba Aug 2006 suite available
Sun, 6 Aug 2006Binary packages for Quest's latest Samba suite are now available. In this release, platform coverage and performance has been improved.
—David Leonard
dnsupdate 1.2.0 available
Sun, 6 Aug 2006dnsupdate automatically updates a VAS-enabled host's DNS record if its DHCP-assigned IP address changes. dnsupdate 1.2.0 is the first release with pre-compiled binary packages available for most platforms.
—Ted Percival
quest-samba Jul 2006 suite available
Tue, 25 Jul 2006Binary packages for Quest's Samba suite are now available for download. Quest's Samba package, quest-samba-3.0.23a_q93, is independent of and interoperable with VAS, while the identity mapper, vasidmap-0.9.2.55, completes winbind/SID and UPM integration.
—David Leonard
mod_auth_vas-3.2.3 available
Sun, 25 Jun 2006mod_auth_vas 3.2.3 fixes a major security problem (see bug #46). All users should upgrade as soon as possible.
—Ted Percival
mod_auth_vas-3.2.2 available
Tue, 6 Jun 2006mod_auth_vas is an Apache module implementing SPNEGO and Windows Integrated Authentication. The 3.2.2 release fixes a problem with settings (bug 42) and a security improvement at setup.
—David Leonard
VAS Apps 0.7.2q4 adds telnet encryption
Tue, 6 Jun 2006VAS Apps 0.7.2q4 has been released for all existing platforms. It adds support for encrypted telnet connections.
—Ted Percival
VAS Apps project's first release
Tue, 11 Apr 2006VAS Apps is a new RC project that provides Vintela single sign-on for telnet, ftp, and rsh. An initial beta-style release is available from the VAS Apps project page with binaries initially available for Linux x86 and other platforms to come. Please report any bugs using the bug tracker link on the project page.
—Ted Percival
Firefox/Mozilla VAS extension available
Wed, 5 Apr 2006Instructions and an extension for using VAS SPNEGO with older versions of Firefox/Mozilla are now available. VAS-enabled unix users can now access IIS or Apache servers protected with Windows Integrated Authentication.
—David Leonard
OpenSSH 4.3p2q1 packages available
Wed, 15 Feb 2006Packages for OpenSSH 4.3p2q1 are now available. This release introduces a simpler package naming scheme, as well as many bug fixes. This is the first stable release for VAS 3; VAS 2 packages are also available.
—Ted Percival
SAMBA 3.0.21b Q1 packages for VAS3 available
Mon, 13 Feb 2006Binary packages of SAMBA3 for Solaris/sparc and Red Hat Enterprise Linux/x86 are now available. These packages default to authenticating users against Active Directory, and using the machine secret (host key) managed by VAS.
—David Leonard
OpenSSH4.3 snapshot builds for VAS2.6 and VAS3.0 now available
Thu, 22 Dec 2005Some snapshot builds of OpenSSH-4.3 with Vintela enhancements are now available. Separate packages are provided for both VAS2.6 and VAS3.0. (Merry Christmas everyone!)
—David Leonard
vintela-samba-3.0.20bvrc0.0.0
Thu, 20 Oct 2005vintela-samba is an early source release of Samba with modifications for improved integration with VAS.
—David Leonard
PuTTY-0.58vrc0.2.1.4 available
Thu, 29 Sep 2005PuTTY 0.58vrc0.2.1.4 fixes a bug in GSS key re-exchange, and contains some minor security improvements.
—David Leonard
Vintela-OpenSSH 4.2p1vrc1.9.1 released
Tue, 20 Sep 2005OpenSSH 4.2p1vrc1.9.1 adds workarounds/fixes for cross-realm authentication support.
—David Leonard
Vintela-OpenSSH 4.2p1vrc1.9.0 released
Fri, 9 Sep 2005OpenSSH 4.2p1vrc1.9.0 is a security fix and feature release. Security improvements from OpenSSH Portable have been merged, and an extra client option for helping with cross-realm authentication has been improved.
—David Leonard
Vintela-OpenSSH 4.1p1vrc1.8.0 released
Mon, 22 Aug 2005OpenSSH 4.1p1vrc1.8.0 is a feature and bugfix release. Bugs fixed include: Privsep interaction with GSSKEX rekeying; spurious characters appearing after GSSAPI realm name. Features include: hostkey-free capability, ability to specify SPNs to client. Security and performance enhancements included through recent versions of zlib and OpenSSL.
—David Leonard
PuTTY-0.57vrc0.1.1 available
Sun, 21 Aug 2005PuTTY 0.57vrc0.1.1 is a bugfix release. It contains important GSSAPI fixes from the PuTTY0.58 branch, and uses the simplified installer. This release is for users uncomfotable with the beta status of 0.58.
—David Leonard
PuTTY-0.58vrc0.2.0.105 available
Sun, 31 Jul 2005PuTTY 0.58vrc0.2.0.105 includes a modern installer, fixes some bugs in the password dialogs and contains some minor robustness improvements. PuTTY 0.58vrc0.2 improves on 0.57vrc0.1 with GSS-KEX support, and cleaner configuration options.
—David Leonard
vintela-OpenSSH for linux-ppc64 and solaris-i386
Sun, 26 Jun 2005OpenSSH 4.1 builds from SLES8/ppc64 and Solaris8/x86 are now available for download.
—David Leonard
Vintela-OpenSSH 4.1p1vrc1.72 released
Sun, 5 Jun 2005OpenSSH 4.1 is a bugfix release. Support for AIX 4.3.3 is now available, and for AIX installations without PAM.
—David Leonard
Quest Software to acquire Vintela
Thu, 2 Jun 2005Quest Software is buying Vintela. Vintela will continue to support Resource Central.
—David Leonard
The potential for an SSH worm
Mon, 16 May 2005Bruce Schneier writes about the risk of worms exploiting SSH's known_hosts database. Vintela's OpenSSH includes gss-keyex, which effectively mitigates this risk.
—David Leonard
OpenSSH 4.0p1-vrc1.7.1 released
Thu, 12 May 2005Vintela OpenSSH now supports GSS key exchange, fixes two bugs relating to expired passwords and now ships without the ACSS stream cipher.
—David Leonard
Vintela Resource Central has a new look
Wed, 11 May 2005Vintela Resource Central has been given a new look. Enjoy the new layout.
—Creig Bush