Re: .deb packages and security

2018-06-04 Thread Darac Marjal
On Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 03:37:08PM +0200, john doe wrote: On 6/4/2018 3:09 PM, Dan Purgert wrote: Anil Duggirala wrote: hello, I know installing .deb packages downloaded from websites is not a good practice in terms of software management in Debian. I would like to know if I should have securit

Re: .deb packages and security

2018-06-04 Thread john doe
On 6/4/2018 3:09 PM, Dan Purgert wrote: Anil Duggirala wrote: hello, I know installing .deb packages downloaded from websites is not a good practice in terms of software management in Debian. I would like to know if I should have security concerns when installing a .deb package "manually" (using

Re: .deb packages and security

2018-06-04 Thread Dan Purgert
Anil Duggirala wrote: > hello, > I know installing .deb packages downloaded from websites is not a good > practice in terms of software management in Debian. I would like to > know if I should have security concerns when installing a .deb package > "manually" (using gdebi for example) ? Do you tru

Re: .deb packages and security

2018-06-04 Thread tomas
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mon, Jun 04, 2018 at 07:20:34AM -0500, Anil Duggirala wrote: > hello, > I know installing .deb packages downloaded from websites is not a good > practice in terms of software management in Debian. I would like to know if I > should have security c

.deb packages and security

2018-06-04 Thread Anil Duggirala
hello, I know installing .deb packages downloaded from websites is not a good practice in terms of software management in Debian. I would like to know if I should have security concerns when installing a .deb package "manually" (using gdebi for example) ? Is it possible that by downloading the s