From 1fe6cabc4d3868510427e32b60c9aa869886acab Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pierre Schmitz Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2012 13:25:56 +0100 Subject: pacman-key: Remove useless signature verification in --populate command Verifing the keyring at this point is useless as a malicious package is already installed and as such has several options to bypass this check anyway. Signed-off-by: Pierre Schmitz Signed-off-by: Dan McGee --- doc/pacman-key.8.txt | 5 ----- 1 file changed, 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'doc') diff --git a/doc/pacman-key.8.txt b/doc/pacman-key.8.txt index 1582a3ca..3631ec8c 100644 --- a/doc/pacman-key.8.txt +++ b/doc/pacman-key.8.txt @@ -129,11 +129,6 @@ any signing", so should be used with prudence. A key being marked as revoked will be disabled in the keyring and no longer treated as valid, so this always takes priority over it's trusted state in any other keyring. -All files are required to be signed (detached) by a trusted PGP key that the -user must manually import to the pacman keyring. This prevents a potentially -malicious repository adding keys to the pacman keyring without the users -knowledge. - See Also -------- -- cgit v1.2.3-70-g09d2