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/ 2 Years ago, sat, may 7, 2022, 9:12:00
I'm experimenting with VPNs, so I wanted to install pptpd.
john@desktop:~$ sudo apt-get install pptpd
[sudo] password for john:
<snip>
The following extra packages will be installed:
bcrelay
The following NEW packages will be installed:
bcrelay pptpd
0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 11 not upgraded.
Need to get 90.5 kB of archives.
After this operation, 442 kB of additional disk space will be used.
Do you want to continue [Y/n]? y
And everything runs fine until I get down to here:
WARNING: The following packages cannot be authenticated!
bcrelay pptpd
Install these packages without verification [y/N]? n
E: Some packages could not be authenticated
No authentication? I'm no security expert, but I'm fairly sure that's a bad thing. So I check to see where the packages are coming from.
john@desktop:~$ apt-cache policy pptpd
pptpd:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1.3.4-3ubuntu1
Version table:
1.3.4-3ubuntu1 0
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main i386 Packages
john@desktop:~$ apt-cache policy bcrelay
bcrelay:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1.3.4-3ubuntu1
Version table:
1.3.4-3ubuntu1 0
500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ natty/main i386 Packages
They're coming from Ubuntu.com and not being properly authenticated? What's going on here?
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