topic Re: swinstall in Operating System - HP-UX

swinstall

Alvin Cabrera — Wed, 29 Nov 2000 22:09:34 GMT

anyone know if swinstall or any of the other sw commands can support pgp signed packages/bundles? tia.

Re: swinstall

Patrick Wallek — Wed, 29 Nov 2000 23:40:34 GMT

Hmmm....Interersting question....I don't think that swinstall supports those. I haven't heard of anythings else that will either.

A digital signature would be another way to verify that a product is valid and that it is from who you think it is.

Re: swinstall

Marcel Eken_2 — Thu, 30 Nov 2000 07:11:40 GMT

Hi,

swinstall does not check who created the file.

So the answer is no, pgp or others are not used.

Marcel Eken.

Re: swinstall

Jack Burke — Fri, 01 Dec 2000 20:56:00 GMT

swinstall does not have PGP capability. You would need to install PGP; you could then use it to verify a detatched signature before running swinstall.

Of course, this presupposes that you have packages that have been PGP signed. Until vendors start doing that....