On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 02:58, Adrian von Bidder wrote: > On Fri, 2002-09-20 at 09:40, Ron Johnson wrote: > > On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 23:25, Debian wrote: > > > On Thu, Sep 19, 2002 at 11:20:42PM -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > On Thu, 2002-09-19 at 21:19, Egor Tur wrote: > > > > > Hi Folks! > > > > > How write the ssh method in sources.list correctly? > > > > > > > > What do you mean? > > > > > > I think he is asking for a method which to get his packages using > > > ssh. To my knowledge there is no such method besides setting up > > > a tunnel. Maybe Im worng. > > > > Oh. If you use an authoritative source (like ftp://ftp.us.debian.org) > > and since packages are signed and automatically checked during install, > > is there any practical need for encrypted downloads? > > Do you live in the future? Debian 4.0 or so?
Not the future, but an alternate universe... > To my knowledge, although Release files are signed, packages are not, > and not even the Release file signatures are usually checked. Ah! This is disturbing. -- +------------------------------------------------------------+ | Ron Johnson, Jr. mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] | | Jefferson, LA USA http://members.cox.net/ron.l.johnson | | | | "What other evidence do you have that they are terrorists, | | other than that they trained in these camps?" | | 17-Sep-2002 Katie Couric to an FBI agent regarding the 5 | | men arrested near Buffalo NY | +------------------------------------------------------------+ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
