[Spacewalk-list] spacewalk 0.5 ks activation key issue

[John Hodrien]

On Tue, 21 Apr 2009, A.J.Delaney at brighton.ac.uk wrote:

> Dear all,
> 	I have a spacewalk 0.5 server from which I'm trying to ks a client.  I
> use the bare metal ks URL:
> http://FQDN/ks/cfg/org/1/label/Fedora-11-Beta-x86_64
> Which I note is different from the old 0.3 URL as the 0.3 URL would have
> had a org/activation-key/label.  Using my laptop's web-browser to
> connect to that URL gives me a permission error (which I would expect).
> However, I get the same permission error when trying to ks a client.

Yeah, I just had the same problem.  I've only just started properly playing
with 0.5, and I've not gone back and reviewed the mailing list properly.

> 2009-04-21 11:23:37,854 [TP-Processor1] ERROR
> com.redhat.rhn.common.errors.PermissionExceptionHandler - Permission
> Error
> com.redhat.rhn.common.security.PermissionException: The activation key
> '1-a5371e09b3eb48fb5814aba1f01b5db9' needs  provisioning capabilities to
> be able to facilitate  the config channel functionality
>
> As you can see the activation key in the error message does not match
> the activation key that was assigned to the kickstart profile.  I assume
> that bare-metal ks clients get assigned a random activation key in order
> to download the ks profile.  Might this key not have the requisite
> permissions?
>
> This error is similar to
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/spacewalk-list/2008-November/msg00128.html
> However, I am using the FQDN and I believe I've correctly set up my
> activation key.  I also have the Cobbler fix from
> https://www.redhat.com/archives/spacewalk-list/2009-April/msg00086.html
>
> Any information on how to achieve kickstarting my client would be
> appreciated.

I'm not sure about the activation key error, but I tried using the url listed
in the cobbler config.

Take a peek in /tftpboot/pxelinux.cfg/default

The url in there doesn't require authorization.

jh

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