On Wed, Mar 12, 2008 at 1:25 PM, Hugh Brown <hbrown@(protected):
> 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?

As far as I know it has always been available although you do need
activation key administrator privileges I expect to make changes to a
key.

Navigate to the main page for a key (systems->activation keys and find
your key) and you should see tabs for Details | Child Channels |
Groups | Activated Systems. Click on Child Channels and add whichever
channels you want automatic subscriptions to.

John

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