On Thu, 11 Mar 2004, John Richard Smith wrote:
Mandrakelinux-10.0-Community-Download.md5sums.asc
So , kindly inform me, what does .asc stand for ?
John
This means that it is a gpg/pgp signature of the files to insure that the md5sums has not been tampered with.
$ gpg Mandrakelinux-10.0-Community-Download.md5sums.asc on the command line will tell if you have a unmodified m5sums check file.
Then you can check the md5sums with
$ md5sum -c Mandrakelinux-10.0-Community-Download.md5sums
Performing these steps are very important to detect
corrupted or tampered files in a distribution.
You live and learn, I'm glad I asked this question now. I did think I might look silly, not knowing. Just shows you.
like this ?
[EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# cd /mnt/ext2-vol7/M10
[EMAIL PROTECTED] M10]# ls
Mandrakelinux-10.0-Community-Download.md5sums.asc
[EMAIL PROTECTED] M10]# gpg Mandrakelinux-10.0-Community-Download.md5sums.asc
gpg: Signature made Thu 04 Mar 2004 14:38:42 GMT using DSA key ID 70771FF3
gpg: Good signature from "Mandrake Linux <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>"
gpg: WARNING: This key is not certified with a trusted signature!
gpg: There is no indication that the signature belongs to the owner.
Primary key fingerprint: ED65 5537 C36E EE0E 309A BA84 E789 8AE0 7077 1FF3
[EMAIL PROTECTED] M10]#
so what's with this primary key fingerprint stuff ?
or didn't I do it right ?
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