GPG Problems with FC4

[chalonec]

Still did not work.  Below are the error messages.

(from Console)

initRepo
warning: rpmts_HdrFromFdno: Header V3 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID 1ac70ce6

(from Application prompt)
The package firestarter-1.0.3-3 is not signed with a GPG signature. 
Continue?


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Paul Howarth" <paul at city-fan.org>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 12:34 PM
Subject: Re: GPG Problems with FC4


> Piero wrote:
>>>From: fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com
>>
>> [mailto:fedora-list-bounces at redhat.com] On Behalf Of chalonec
>>
>>>Sent: Friday, July 08, 2005 6:19 PM
>>>To: fedora-list at redhat.com
>>>Subject: GPG Problems with FC4
>>
>>
>>>I have been trying to update my fc4 using up2date and yum.  Both say the
>>
>> packages I am downloading do not have signed GPG keys.  Is there a fix 
>> for
>> this?
>>
>> Sure... it's enough to edit /etc/yum.conf setting "gpgcheck" directive to 
>> 0
>> value on each repository...
>
> That's hiding the problem rather than fixing it though. The GPG checks 
> help you to ensure that only software packaged by the maintainers of the 
> repos you use gets installed on your system, even if those repos get 
> hacked by the bad guys.
>
> Paul.
>
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