Beartooth Sciurivore wrote:
On Wed, 21 May 2008 00:27:17 +0200, Björn Persson wrote:
I went ahead and read the code. [....]
I've got my answer: Preupgrade is not secure. I'll continue upgrading
the way I've done it before – either with Yum or from a DVD image on a
USB stick.
Dumb question, probably : if you install and run preupgrade
according to http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/PreUpgrade, BUT let it stop
after downloading boot images, is there some user-friendly thing you can
do then to make it secure? Something on the order of getting into a
directory and commanding, in effect, "check all signatures"?
Or had we just better wait till PreUpgrade 1.0 comes out? Or ...?
If the latter, do we need to get rid of whatever-all 0.9.3-3
downloaded? Or will we be able to just "yum update PreUpgrade" in F8 and
then run it again?
I don't think you can do anything unless you can verify the images on
your own after the download. You'll have to track down where everything
is stored, I know some of it is in /boot/upgrade but I am not sure if
verifying the images there is all that is needed. I am going to scan the
code myself, I am limited in skill when it comes to coding but I've
taken programming classes in the past and of course I am self teaching
the C so maybe it won't be hard to add the proper checks. In any case I
am short on time, so if you haven't used preupgrade i would avoid it for
now and go with a more traditional method for the moment. It really
sucks that the proper verification isn't done but until I look into it
myself I won't know anything for sure, not that I don't trust Bjorn's
assessment but everyone makes mistakes, though I think it likely he is
on the money. Disappointing that anyone could be so flip about the
proper security checks but we are all only human I guess. Anyway someone
else may have a good way to go about it, I'd like to find one, this
install is perfectly usable with only a small glitch or two. I am
rocking to Alice in Chains right now!!
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