The following packages cannot be authenticated

[Colin Law]

On 30 November 2011 11:42, Amichai Rotman <amichai at iglu.org.il> wrote:
> First of all,  don't panic!
> Please provide more information: what version of obuntu are running?
> What did you use to try and install(apt-get,  Software Center)?

Also the output from
apt-cache policy samba
may be useful.

Colin

>
> --------------
> Amichai.
>
> On Nov 30, 2011 12:59 PM, "Shawn Pringle" <shawn.pringle at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
>> Hash: SHA1
>>
>> Before installing samba, I received this warning:
>>
>> "The following packages cannot be authenticated!"  I didn't know there
>> was any kind of certificate system in place.  Can someone tell me what
>> this means exactly, how serious is the risk and why common are
>> packages that can be authenticated?
>>
>> Shawn Pringle
>> - --
>> PGP public key available at pool.sks-keyservers.net
>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
>> Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (MingW32)
>>
>> iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJO1gwPAAoJEHJVLFhKYbxVkuUH/iNnvT0zlBrFN4JG6R+oU/NF
>> Pl+GxRf2yo/OtTGhJznZjtSYHU3Bn7sDebFUcvZ+uTJ//IB40FT+2JRywAgMAGUN
>> jEZgx9uMJW6pTX15T5tUeQk/02d4pO/+dJ29SVqqg56eqtXcsEKpqQNpMOUL+XBN
>> QGw3LsdDwV+owFpYMzJLyEJUaW+f+UHkquguLqR0n/DXB5WLDGorDz/r71PLIaBG
>> ciG7e4CGTF89zaiqziLfTwSfYdEpl6nJWOzQYMqwAcmNxAYNX4fAJadnvymUPAlq
>> VLsU5F6niCJy+CjvWVn4xOORRwQkWSio2tvPYrMOjQpaaFmdyqKfrdyPkBVaGQI=
>> =Lywi
>> -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
>>
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