inode0 wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 1:11 PM, Hugh Brown <hbrown@(protected):
>> As I understand it, you can write code to use the RHN API and use your
>> RHN credentials, but that inevitably means putting a password for your
>> RHN account in a file if you want to do anything unattended. Because of
>> the way auth is done at my site (we're using the RHN Satellite product),
>> plaintext credentials is not feasible for me.
>>
>> It would be nice if there were an option to rhnreg_ks that allowed for
>> subscribing channels based on the key used to register.
>
> Not sure if I missed the actual cause of the problem here but if you
> install using the installation number for desktop+workstation you
> should get subscribed to the workstation channel so long as you don't
> use an activation key when registering. Alternatively you could set
> the channel subscriptions you desire in an activation key and use that
> when registering.
>
> John
>

In my case, an activation key is used as part of a kickstart load and it
is registering against an RHN Satellite server (which I don't have any
administrative access to). The key is preferable to the user
credentials because the key is limited to the satellite where the user
credentials are used for a multitude of services and systems (not just
the satellite server).

How do you set up an activation key to have channel subscriptions
(beyond the base channel)? Which version of RHN/Satellite do you have
to be running in order to have this feature?

Hugh

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