On Friday, October 19, 2018 4:32:08 PM EDT Andrew Gilmore wrote:
> I'm also very confused on this. Wasn't this part of the Red Hat recommended
> security settings?

The issue Trevor is talking about is a very unusable situation. The 
recommended setting is fine wrt normal use.

Upstream says that a repo key is assigned to a specific repo. Metadata key 
for shady repo cannot be used for metadata for an official Red Hat repo.

-Steve

> As far as I can tell, DNF does nothing different for repo metadata.
> 
> Andrew
> 
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2018, 14:13 Trevor Vaughan <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Who should I open the request with?
> > 
> > I haven't really seen any differences in DNF from that point of view in
> > Fedora yet.
> > 
> > Thanks,
> > 
> > Trevor
> > 
> > On Fri, Oct 19, 2018 at 3:15 PM Steve Grubb <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> On Tuesday, October 16, 2018 3:58:01 PM EDT Trevor Vaughan wrote:
> >> > Necromancing this thread!
> >> > 
> >> > Any updates on this Steve?
> >> 
> >> The answer I was given is like this:
> >> 
> >> "The keys for checking repo. metadata are only used for those repos.
> >> (so key for repo X can't verify metadata for repo. Y). There are also
> >> CA keys, so you can cycle keys etc. The keys for rpm checking are
> >> imported
> >> into the rpm DB and thus. global, but that's an rpm thing."
> >> 
> >> So, I don't think rpm/yum were intended to solve the security problem
> >> you
> >> outlined because its now how software distribution normally works. And
> >> if
> >> two
> >> repos have the same package, I think you will notice some kind of error/
> >> warning. Feel free to open some kind of request. I also think the dnf
> >> developers may have things a little better security-wise.
> >> 
> >> -Steve
> > 
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