[Yum] yum's awesome, ideas

seth vidal skvidal at phy.duke.edu
Wed Jul 30 20:22:45 UTC 2003


> 
> Redhat's up2date requires the key, and displays a nice message/offers to
> do it ("rpm --import /usr/share/rhn/RPM-GPG-KEY") for you. yum could do
> something similar, I guess, but now we're getting distro specific.
> 
> Definitely a trade off.

well if its going to import the key for you what's the point of having
it on? an attacker can just trojan the key, right?

I could definitely see a point in having a default key listed that yum
will import if it can - but how do you do that safely?

-sv





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