[rhn-users] Using an exisitng registration

[Clifford Perry]

May I suggest you re-try, but this time without the username/password 
options. just --activationkey= and --force (if needed)

Cliff.

MJang wrote:
> Dear Cliff,
> 
> I appreciate your insight, but it didn't work. I checked again, and do
> have provisioning entitlements (currently filled). Any further advice
> that you might have would be appreciated.
> 
> It seems like I had to enter the password at the console in clear text,
> which would have been bad if a shoulder surfer were around.
> 
> I ran (substituting for actual username, etc):
> # rhnreg_ks --username xxxxxx --password yyyyyyy --activationkey zzzzzzz
> 
> Error Message:
>     Registration failed: RHN Software Management service entitlements
> exhausted
> Error Class Code: 91
> Error Class Info: Registration token unable to entitle system: maximum
> membership exceeded
> Explanation:
>      An error has occurred while processing your request. If this
> problem
>      persists please enter a bug report at bugzilla.redhat.com.
>      If you choose to submit the bug report, please be sure to include
>      details of what you were trying to do when this error occurred and
>      details on how to reproduce this problem.
> 
> Thanks,
> Mike
> 
> On Sat, 2007-03-10 at 09:52 -0500, Clifford Perry wrote:
>> Yes. *If* you have provisioning entitlement, you can create a 
>> reactivation key and use that key with the rhnreg_ks command to 
>> re-register a system and for it to pick up its old system profile. Link 
>> to a section in the RHN Reference guide below:
>>
>> https://rhn.redhat.com/rhn/help/reference/rhn415/en/s1-sm-systems.jsp#S5-SM-SYSTEM-DETAILS-REACT
>> 6.4.2.8.1.4. System Details ⇒ Details ⇒ Reactivation
>>
>>
>> Regards,
>> Cliff.
>>
>> MJang wrote:
>>> Folks, 
>>>
>>> Just wondering if there's any way to use an existing registration when
>>> doing a fresh install - 
>>>
>>> so I don't have to delete and reconfigure stuff for an existing machine
>>> on the RHN.
>>>
>>> Thnaks,
>>> Mike
>>>
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