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Rui Miguel Seabra rms at 1407.org
Tue Jun 22 22:35:23 UTC 2004


On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 13:45 -0400, Colin Walters wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-06-22 at 12:21 -0400, Elliot Lee wrote:
> 
> > There is a Fedora rawhide key (key ID 1CDDBCA9 I believe), but it's really
> > not practical right now to sign the packages, because the rawhide push is
> > completely automated, and signing requires manually entering a password.  
> 
> Well you can certainly provide the passphrase programatically, something
> like:
> 
> echo "my passphrase" 1>&3 | gpg --passphrase-fd=3 ...

This would also be very very bad :)

It would have to be a software that links with an rpm library, reads
passphrase from someplace (maybe even use selinux to restrict who can
read it? :)) and uses it.

Other than that... welcome to the world of ps :)

Rui
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