> > Redhat's up2date requires the key, and displays a nice message/offers to > do it ("rpm --import /usr/share/rhn/RPM-GPG-KEY") for you. yum could do > something similar, I guess, but now we're getting distro specific. > > Definitely a trade off. well if its going to import the key for you what's the point of having it on? an attacker can just trojan the key, right? I could definitely see a point in having a default key listed that yum will import if it can - but how do you do that safely? -sv