[Spacewalk-list] Unknown Key in Cobbler Distro

Justin Sherrill jsherril at redhat.com
Tue Aug 11 00:39:48 UTC 2009


Andy Speagle wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-08-10 at 16:50 -0500, Mike McCune wrote:
>> every kickstart profile in Spacewalk has a default activation key
>> used 
>> with it, the 1st one you are seeing is the one associated with the 
>> profile, the 2nd is your custom key.
>>
>> Mike
> 
> Hmmm... ok then.  Any idea why I can't get the system registered using
> the registration string in the kickstart, which includes both keys, ala:
> 
> rhnreg_ks --serverUrl=https://<myserver>/XMLRPC
> --sslCACert=/usr/share/rhn/RHN-ORG-TRUSTED-SSL-CERT
> --activationkey=1-28ef2e19220231062d6ab036e00ddf38,1-037880d329934283fd3264f97aa33317
> 
> The above string is what I see in my kickstart when I look at it via the
> UI, however, if I look at the "cobbler.ks" file on the system after it
> installs, the "other" activation key in the command above is completely
> different... as if it's being generated randomly for each build. ala:
> 
> rhnreg_ks --serverUrl=https://<myserver>/XMLRPC
> --sslCACert=/usr/share/rhn/RHN-ORG-TRUSTED-SSL-CERT
> --activationkey=1-037880d329934283fd3264f97aa33317,1-bc356b33a64a3b6c422a35a9bc019a7d
> 
> Either way, I don't seem to be able to register until I remove the
> "other" key and use just my chosen activation key.
> 
> Any thoughts?  I'm confused.
> 

Can you try running the registration command that isn't working manually
on a system?

We might get an error message that tells us why it's not working.

-Justin

> Andy
> 
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