Re: Fw: Red Hat Linux end-of-life update and transition planning

[Michael Gale <michael () bluesuperman com>]

So you think up2date is secure and has no problems, please refer to the 
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Subject: [Full-disclosure] [RHSA-2003:255-01] up2date improperly checks GPG signature of packages
Date: Fri, 8 Aug 2003 12:36 -0400
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Synopsis:          up2date improperly checks GPG signature of packages
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This just proves that Network Admins should NOT reply %100 on up2date to keep there servers healthy -- how about you do 
some work on them instead of expecting your linux distro developer to keep YOUR system up2date !!!

Like I said before -- "People who started off on RH usually never learned anything"

RH-users: Help Help my rpm is broken 
slackware-users: it is ok, download the source, compile, and install
RH-users: what is this "source" you speak off - and compile - hmmmm I have to check my RH manual on that one. Oh wait I 
can't compile, because my lib's are all of the place.

I will gladly burn you a slackware ISO and ship it over if you like.

Michael

On Tue, 4 Nov 2003 00:47:36 -0500
"Joshua Levitsky" <jlevitsk () joshie com> wrote:

> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Michael Gale" <michael () bluesuperman com>
> Sent: Monday, November 03, 2003 11:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [Full-disclosure] Fw: Red Hat Linux end-of-life update and
> transition planning
>
>
> > So you are saying you trust up2date to take care of all your machine
> updates ? That is like saying you trust Microsoft auto update to handle your
> servers. What happens when they release a bad patch ? or one that hoses your
> machine.
>
> That's why Red Hat network has an interface where you pick what updates get
> deployed to each machine or to each group of machines. You authorize /
> schedule a patch on up2date and it will grab it. Alternatively you can run
> up2date --update on your boxes if you just want to fetch everything if you
> know all existing patches are good for your environment.
>
>
> > This way I can test and packages before they get installed and I KNOW THE
> SOURCE of the packages. There is no "ops .. RedHat servers have been hacked
> and I just installed ...".
>
>
> up2date uses GPG signatures to ensure the content is signed by Red Hat. Are
> you saying they would hack the up2date servers and compromise the private
> key?
>
>
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