Re: securing an Ubuntu box in a shared office?

On Thursday 06 July 2006 23:16, Mario Vukelic wrote:
On Thu, 2006-07-06 at 18:31 -0700, Eric Hanchrow wrote:
Ironically, "aptitude install bastille" yields this warning:

18:29:27 [root@debian ~]# aptitude install bastille
...
Do you want to continue? [Y/n/?]
WARNING: untrusted versions of the following packages will be
installed!

Untrusted packages could compromise your system's security.
You should only proceed with the installation if you are
certain that this is what you want to do.

Something must be weird with your repository setup, I don't get this
warning on 6.06 LTS (Dapper)

I know that if you add a odd or untrusted source you will get this
message. See "man apt-key" and also check on the ubuntu wiki.

An example is also here: http://kubuntu.org/announcements/kde-353.php

Dana

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