How to verify Samba RPM Files?

Jelmer Vernooij jelmer at samba.org
Wed Oct 22 16:34:01 MDT 2014


Hi Vince,

On Wed, Oct 22, 2014 at 10:15:57PM +0000, Vince George (vincgeor) wrote:
> I have downloaded a RHEL5 release including several Samba RPM files and I want to verify their integrity & authenticity.
> 
> It's the first time I am using rpm and ran the two command-lines against a Samba rpm file...
> 
> 1st Command-Line: : rpm -K samba3-3.6.24-45.el5.x86_64.rpm
> 
> samba3-3.6.24-45.el5.x86_64.rpm: (SHA1) DSA sha1 md5 (GPG) NOT OK (MISSING KEYS: GPG#f4428b1a)
> 
> 2nd Command-Line: :  rpm -K -v samba3-3.6.24-45.el5.x86_64.rpm
> 
> samba3-3.6.24-45.el5.x86_64.rpm:
>     Header V4 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID f4428b1a
>     Header SHA1 digest: OK (0ba26692ea1fa6c5fc19d4bf9ae5b5f6b2f8a5dd)
>     MD5 digest: OK (3f09dc73be6069fd79b2a32ee6e3b51a)
>     V4 DSA signature: NOKEY, key ID f4428b1a
> 
> How do I verify the signatures of the Samba RPM? Am I missing some public key file?

This is more of a RHEL-specific question rather than relating specifically to
Samba. http://www.rpm.org/max-rpm/ch-rpm-verify.html seems to have some
documentation, but you could also ask on one of the RedHat mailing lists.

Jelmer


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