HP Remote Device Access Virtual CAS Release Notes (October 2009)

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Overview
The Virtual CAS is a pre-packaged CAS system that includes advanced authentication, access
control, and auditing capabilities. Customers may download and run this virtual appliance on a
VMware Server host system, in lieu of a basic CAS.
New Features
• Some directories and example files have been added to aid in dual-NIC configurations.
• Template files are now shipped in the kit and are located in /usr/share/hp-rdacas. The
program cassetup uses these files to provide a mechanism to ensure that the Virtual CAS
can recover from errant package installations overwriting configuration files in /etc.
• The APT update repository has been changed to h20529.www2.hp.com.
• Cosmetic upgrades to "streamed" output views during vCAS setup, updates, source fetching,
CRL fetching, and revocation auto-detect.
Fixed Problems
This release addresses these issues:
• An upgrade of the lighttpd package will overwrite /etc/lighttpd/lighttpd.conf. Logic
has been added to prevent overwriting Debian "conffiles".
• ntpd was not restarted when changing NTP server address. ntpd is now restarted whenever
cassetup or the web user interface changes the NTP server address.
• hp-rdaauth package now runs ldconfig in post-install and post-remove procedures to ensure
that the supplied libraries are in the run-time linker cache.
• During initial setup the dhclient3 daemon did not properly shutdown leaving a stray NTP
configuration file, /etc/ntp.conf.dhcp, and a running dhclient3 daemon. The presence
of the file /etc/ntp.conf.dhcp precluded the settings in /etc/ntp.conf thus disabling
the ability for the web UI to modify the NTP settings. The leftover dhclient3 daemon would
wildly change the IP address until the system was rebooted. Now, when changing the IP
address, the setup procedure summarily annihilates the dhclient3 daemon and
unceremoniously deletes /etc/ntp.conf.dhcp.
• When entering a proxy specification containing credentials in the Web Proxy URL text box an
error message box would pop up indicating a bad web proxy server address. For example, a
string in the form of
was not accepted. The web UI has been changed to allow the specification of web proxy server
credentials.
http://user:[e-mail]:port
• The file /etc/apt/apt.conf was not correctly edited when updating the web proxy. Now,
when updating the web proxy server, the file /etc/apt/apt.conf is correctly modified.
• The web user interface did not allow a numeric IP address for the NTP server. The web UI now
allows numeric IP addresses.
• Dynamic output from vCAS setup, updates, and other configuration would sometimes hang or
abort with "Response: undefined Reason: undefined" errors. This has been fixed.
• For more detailed change descriptions, see the following files:
○ /usr/share/doc/hp-rdaauth/changelog.Debian.gz
○ /usr/share/doc/hp-rdacas/changelog.Debian.gz
NOTE: Both of the files can be viewed using the
zcat
and
zless
commands.