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Good morning

I get the following message when I try to change my computer's settings:

Unable to edit the host profile
If package is signed with a foreign key, you may want to delete host package first to workaround the issue

Can you help me please?

Good day.

Regards

Hello,
this message means that the signature of the current machine configuration (it's a WAPT package like any other) cannot be recognized with the certificates currently in the directory

Perhaps it was created with a different key?

The "simple" solution is to delete the machine package and start with a clean one.

(Right-click / Delete computer / Check "Delete configuration only")

Thank you for your help

To explain the reason for this check:

When modifying a machine's configuration, under the hood, you retrieve a WAPT package from the server named after the machine's UUID, add or remove dependencies, re-sign it with your key, and re-upload it to the server with an incremented version.

If a malicious actor has previously placed a package on the server—necessarily incorrectly signed because they lack an approved key—containing dangerous code, you could unwittingly approve this malicious code by modifying the machine's configuration and re-signing it.