Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-security (224 mails)

[Markus Gaugusch <markus@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Feb 7, Andreas Bittner <bittner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> during execution i was root on both systems... what has changed from
> suse 7.3 to 8.0?? i havent been using gpg/rpm with a normal user account
> at all... all the pub keys have been imported to the root keyrings...
> the normal users have never been using gpg...
Yes it has changed between 7.3 and 8.0.
rpm --verify uses NOT the keyring of root (if run as root), but the
keyring in /usr/lib/rpm/gnupg. (Sorry, had a type in last mail. this
directory is right)

> i mean the key from the webmin author IS THERE in the keyring of root on
> both systems... what the heck does it tell me it cant find the pub key
> then on the 8.0 system ????
As I said, it changed and 8.0 doesn't use root's keyring.

Markus
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