upgrader prompts the user to activate new certificates, given no context
Affects | Status | Importance | Assigned to | Milestone | |
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ubuntu-release-upgrader (Ubuntu) |
New
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Undecided
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Unassigned |
Bug Description
While upgrading from Ubuntu 13.04 to 13.10 the user is prompted to activate new cacert.org certificates (specifically "cacert.
I am not sure which version of Ubuntu this bug should be filed against. It's either 13.04 or 13.10. I could not find version information about the upgrader using apt-cache policy but I did check dpkg -l and found "ubuntu-
I expected to be able to learn the location of the certificates on the filesystem so I could verify their authenticity. Instead I just had to either accept or reject the certificates blindly.. I suspect the tool would normally be started by the user, manually, meaning the user would already know where the certificate is.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 13.04
Package: ubuntu-
ProcVersionSign
Uname: Linux 3.8.0-31-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.9.2-0ubuntu8.3
Architecture: amd64
CrashDB: ubuntu
Date: Sat Oct 19 05:54:54 2013
MarkForUpload: True
PackageArchitec
ProcEnviron:
TERM=xterm
PATH=(custom, no user)
XDG_RUNTIME_
LANG=en_US.UTF-8
SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: ubuntu-
Symptom: ubuntu-
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to raring on 2013-10-19 (0 days ago)
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