On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 03:23:56PM +0200, houghi wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 04, 2006 at 02:29:58PM +0200, Joachim Werner wrote:
> <snip great explanation>
> > Now for the problems with YaST and installation sources you may have faced 
> > in 
> > the last couple of days:
> > 
> > The problem is that the signature checks are already in place, but the GUI 
> > and 
> > command line options that let you import non-SUSE keys, override key 
> > checking 
> > and integrity checking are not in place yet.
> 
> OK. That was what I figured out eventually. ;-)
> 
> > With the final product you will be able to switch all the checks off, so 
> > you 
> > can still use sources that do not use any signing or checksums. But 
> > currently 
> > there are a few bugs with YaST expecting a signature to be there etc.
> 
> Somehow I managed to work around that and get non-signed RPM's on a iso.
> This with just editing the content of one file. This means that even
> though people think they have the real deal, they might get an infected CD
> or DVD.
> 
> Does this then not kill of the purpose of the signing? It makes it possibe
> to get insecure things installed. All it does is remove the ^META and ^KEY
> from ./content.

No, since we also sign the Packages / repomd.xml files and these contain the
SHA-1 / SHA-256 sums of the packages.

Ciao, Marcus

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