[arch-general] Pacman keys

Ionut Biru ibiru at archlinux.org
Mon Jun 4 16:06:37 EDT 2012


On 06/04/2012 10:36 PM, Guillermo Leira wrote:
> For the past six months, pacman's package verification features were turned
> off by default while we were figuring out the details of our public-key
> infrastructure.
> 
> They have finally been enabled in pacman-4.0.3-2; when you upgrade, you will
> be prompted to run:
> 
> 
>     pacman-key --init
> 
>     pacman-key --populate archlinux
> 
> _____________________________________
> 
> Hello!
> 
> Is it possible to run this commands remotely (ssh)? I have tried in
> different machines, and all of them seem to hang after saying
> 
> "gpg: Generating pacman keychain master key..."
> 
> Well, it is not hanged, after almost 30 minutes I can stop it with CTRL-C,
> and get a
> 
> "gpg: signal interrupt caught ... exiting"
> 
> Best Regards,
> 
> Guillermo Leira
> 
> 


create entropy, start copying some files, do a backup, do cat /dev/sda
as root :D

-- 
Ionuț

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