Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Request to apply IMA signatures to files even if deemed a configuration file (#364)

2018-02-12 Thread Panu Matilainen
Closed #364. -- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub: https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/issues/364#event-1469283490___ Rpm-maint mailing list

Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Request to apply IMA signatures to files even if deemed a configuration file (#364)

2018-02-12 Thread Panu Matilainen
Yeah it's a bit strange - those "config files" are not supposed to be changed then they're not really config files, are they? Anyway, commit 99887fec108110f0c85c060fcce48d13f807d058 added a mode where you can sign the configs too if you so wish. -- You are receiving this because you are

Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Request to apply IMA signatures to files even if deemed a configuration file (#364)

2018-02-10 Thread Jeff Johnson
I have read #364, the basis of which is a belief that security policies like ima should be set by the end user, not the packager. An imperfect implementation in rpm to generate ima signatures that are invalid when %config files are altered seems a pointless mechanism to generate useless false

Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Request to apply IMA signatures to files even if deemed a configuration file (#364)

2018-02-10 Thread Jeff Johnson
I have read #364, the basis of which is a belief that security policies like ima should be set by the end user, not the packager. An imperfect implementation in rpm to generate ima signatures that are invalid when %config files are altered seems a pointless mechanism to generate useless false

Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Request to apply IMA signatures to files even if deemed a configuration file (#364)

2017-12-27 Thread Stefan Berger
This PR https://github.com/rpm-software-management/rpm/pull/374 now addresses the issue. -- You are receiving this because you are subscribed to this thread. Reply to this email directly or view it on GitHub:

Re: [Rpm-maint] [rpm-software-management/rpm] Request to apply IMA signatures to files even if deemed a configuration file (#364)

2017-12-06 Thread Stefan Berger
A potential side-effect of having signatures applied to configuration files is that the configuration files may be modified by the user or programs / post-installation scripts and the signature on these files may become invalid or be removed as part of the modification of the configuration