[rhn-users] Fwd: [rhn-satellite-users] Recent and Upcoming RHNAccount Policy Changes

[Sander Steffann]

Hi,

>> Another upcoming improvement related to this account policy change is a
>> multi-organizational account management. Multi-organizational management
>> will allow one Red Hat account to have 'sub-accounts.' So, for example,
>> if you've 100 purchased RHEL AS subscriptions for your servers and 100
>> RHEL WS subscriptions for your workstations, you'll want to make sure
>> that folks who should be running RHEL WS do not have access to RHEL AS
>> and cannot access subscriptions from your server group. With these
>> upcoming changes, you'll be able to split your account into different
>> 'organizations', one that only has access to a particular set of RHEL WS
>> subscriptions. Then you can create accounts in the WS organization for
>> those users who you only want to have access to those WS subscriptions.
>> Basically, this new account system will let you have better control over
>> what subscriptions and systems users in your organization can access in 
>> RHN.

Sounds VERY useful to us!

> This has the potential to be a huge benefit to our organization. But
> the devil is always in the details and now that the door is cracked
> open a tiny bit here are a couple of questions to get the ball
> rolling.
>
> Will there be administrative roles associated with a sub-account? Can
> the organization admin assign sub-account admin privs to another
> account enabling that account to control the goings on in the
> sub-account (create users/keys/groups)?

Good question. I hope the answer will be Yes :)
Sander