Re: [rhn-users] Blocked demo account by ISP defunct account

["Doug Thompson" <doug whitemountainwoodcare com>]

Assuming this is a freebie registration, I'm pretty sure you can just create a new account and register this computer with it.  From a terminal session, either as root or su, try up2date --register

You will require a new username, but that seems a small price.  As the emails from your present account are going to the bit bucket, one day soon the old account will be deleted because you will not have been responding to the poll(s).

I did something similar after rebuilding a machine.  I used a different userid and couldn't eliminate the old account even though I knew the password.  Actually, I couldn't eliminate the emails about updates coming to that account which is the same thing.  After about a month of ignoring the warnings about account deletion, the old account finally went away.

Good luck,
Doug

On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 21:22:51 -0400, Peter Freel wrote:

>I am stuck in the wierdest of bocks to updates with the Redhat Network 
>with a defunct account under a screen name.  I cannot contact a human to 
>rectify this which would solve the problem.  The screen name is as above 
>Counterspy and the defunct ISP account is sympatico.ca yielding 
>"counterspy sympatico ca".  I have long since forgotten the password and 
>attempting to get another  goes to the dead account preventing me from 
>deleting the account.  If anyne has any suggestion as to how this can be 
>corrected, I would like to know.
>
>Peter Freel
>aka Counterspy 
>
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