IMPORTANT: Red Hat's RH SSO affects Patches for RHEL

Red Hat has released Red Hat SSO, an “enterprise application designed to provide federated authentication for web and mobile applications.” RH SSO was recently implemented on www.redhat.com and https://access.redhat.com/. For more information, see https://access.redhat.com/announcements/2901111.

The BigFix Patches for RHEL download plug-in and the download cacher are down. The custom repository feature can be used to deploy patches. For information about custom repositories, see http://ibm.co/2lmtQRp.

The following sites are affected by the RH SSO update.

  • Patches for RHEL 5 Native Tools
  • Patches for RHEL 6 on System z

The following sites, which have adapted the RHSM enhancements, are not affected by the RH SSO update.

  • Patches for RHEL 6 Native Tools
  • Patches for RHEL 7

The BigFix team is putting all efforts to fixing the issue. We shall post developments as soon as they are available.

References:
For information about Red Hat SSO, see https://access.redhat.com/announcements/2901111.
For information about custom repositories, see http://ibm.co/2lmtQRp.

BigFix Application Team
IBM BigFix

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