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I was once told by a good friend that "open source is all well and good, but as a “John Doe” admin what do I need the source code for? It never does admins any good to have the source." At that time, I conceded. It probably wasn't as valuable for admins; it was for developers who need to change the behavior of something. Until today....

Red Hat released Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.4 last Thursday. I want to make you aware of an upstream behavioral change that could cause authentication and other issues. The credit for this goes to a customer and friend who called me after updating to RHEL 6.4 to fix a kernel problem they were hitting.

DLT’s Greg Agana provides a friendly reminder for everyone out there that troubleshooting difficult software application issues doesn't have to be as hard as quantum mechanics. When you run into an issue, like you would in Solaris or RHEL, there are a few steps we go through to figure out what exactly is causing the problem.