Failed authentication in add/remove software [rawhide]

Tom London selinux at gmail.com
Fri Mar 19 13:47:01 UTC 2010


On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 6:34 AM, Aioanei Rares <fedora.listen at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 03/19/2010 03:21 PM, Tom London wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 4:57 AM, Aioanei Rares<fedora.listen at gmail.com>
>>  wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> As the subject says, I start the aforementioned application (gnome
>>> menu->system->add/remove software) as usual user and I select some
>>> packages to install; when I click install , I get the message that I
>>> didn't provide the authentication and installation fails. Is this a
>>> reported bug? If not, against what component do I report it?
>>> --
>>>
>>
>> If I run 'curl' on the URL for the rawhide mirror list from
>> /etc/yum.repos.d/fedora-rawhide.repo, I get:
>>
>> [root at tlondon ~]# curl
>>
>> 'https://mirrors.fedoraproject.org/metalink?repo=rawhide-debug&arch=$basearch'
>> curl: (60) Peer certificate cannot be authenticated with known CA
>> certificates
>> More details here: http://curl.haxx.se/docs/sslcerts.html
>>
>> curl performs SSL certificate verification by default, using a "bundle"
>>  of Certificate Authority (CA) public keys (CA certs). If the default
>>  bundle file isn't adequate, you can specify an alternate file
>>  using the --cacert option.
>> If this HTTPS server uses a certificate signed by a CA represented in
>>  the bundle, the certificate verification probably failed due to a
>>  problem with the certificate (it might be expired, or the name might
>>  not match the domain name in the URL).
>> If you'd like to turn off curl's verification of the certificate, use
>>  the -k (or --insecure) option.
>> [root at tlondon ~]#
>>
>> tom
>>
>
> I fear this is a misunderstanding; sorry if I wasn't clear enough : the
> error I get refers to user credentials, as in I should've have been asked
> for the root password in order to apply the changes (install software).
>

Yeah, sorry to quickly jump on this in error.

BZ for my issue here: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=575111

tom
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Tom London


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