Re: Insecure instructions for installing YUM repo - Mailing list pgsql-pkg-yum

From Michael Gauthier
Subject Re: Insecure instructions for installing YUM repo
Date
Msg-id 56C76013.1090608@silverorange.com
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In response to Re: Insecure instructions for installing YUM repo  (Devrim GÜNDÜZ <devrim@gunduz.org>)
List pgsql-pkg-yum
On 2/19/2016 5:48 AM, Devrim GÜNDÜZ wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 2016-02-19 at 02:03 -0400, Michael Gauthier wrote:
>> The instructions on http://yum.postgresql.org/howtoyum.php for
>> installing the PostgreSQL YUM repository are insecure.
>>
>> You are asking people to download and install the repo RPM package over
>> HTTP. A MITM attack could serve an arbitrary RPM and trick users into
>> installing arbitrary software.
>
> Thanks for the heads up. I updated the links on that page, so that they point
> to https://download.postgresql.org . Does it work for you?
>
> Please let us know if you see more issues with this.
>
> Regards,
>
Hi Devrim,

Thanks for the quick update to use HTTPS! This is indeed much better
than before and works for me.

Cheers,
Mike


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