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Tuesday, August 24th, 2021

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    3:15p
    Security updates for Tuesday
    Security updates have been issued by Debian (ledgersmb, tnef, and tor), Fedora (nodejs-underscore and tor), openSUSE (aws-cli, python-boto3, python-botocore,, fetchmail, firefox, and isync), SUSE (aws-cli, python-boto3, python-botocore, python-service_identity, python-trustme, python-urllib3 and python-PyYAML), and Ubuntu (linux-aws-5.8, linux-azure-5.8, linux-gcp-5.8, linux-oracle-5.8).
    7:37p
    [$] Adding a "duress" password with PAM Duress
    Users often store a lot of sensitive information on their computers—from
    credentials to banned texts to family photos—that they might
    normally expect to be
    protected by the login password of their account. Under some
    circumstances, though, users can be required to log into their system so
    that some third party (e.g. government agent) can examine and potentially
    copy said data. A new project, PAM Duress, provides a way
    to add other passwords to an account, each with its own behavior, which
    might be a way to avoid granting full access to the system, though the
    legality is in question.

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