[Spacewalk-list] Spacewalk and Cobblers Webgui

[Johannes König]

Michael DeHaan schrieb:
> Michael DeHaan wrote:
>> Michael DeHaan wrote:
>>> Mike McCune wrote:
>>>> Johannes König wrote:
>>>>> Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>> since the marriage^^ of Spacewalk and Cobbler i can't use the 
>>>>> Cobbler webgui.
>>>>> Is there a way to use it and Spacewalk can still talk to Cobbler? 
>>>>> I wanted to use the Cobbler webgui for the adding of new server. I 
>>>>> don't want to have user logins on the commandline.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On a machine with Spacewalk and Cobbler installed the authorization 
>>>> is setup such that the only webui you can use is Spacewalk's.  You 
>>>> can still use Cobbler's CLI and of course can use Spacewalk's GUI 
>>>> to create kickstart distributions and profiles.
>>>>
>>>> Mike
>>>>
>>>
>>> I expect to have a patch to cobbler's "authn_spacewalk" module that 
>>> will let you use Cobbler's GUI today.
>>>
>>> Right now it's not possible as it only allows spacewalk "tokens",not 
>>> also the username/password combos.
>>>
>>> Will let you know when I have it working.
>>>
>>> --Michael
>>>
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>>
>> Justin and I were working on this for a bit, and we now have a 
>> Cobbler authn_spacewalk module that not only accepts tokens, but also 
>> valid spacewalk usernames/passwords.
>>
>> This will be included in Cobbler 1.4.3 when it comes out.
>>
>> Note:  We probably need to limit what users can get into cobbler this 
>> way.    Right now it lets everyone with a spacewalk account in, so 
>> this will be fixed soon.
>>
>> http://tinyurl.com/b57th7
>>
>> Anyhow, testing welcome, and if you want to just replace this one 
>> file in your cobbler install, restart cobblerd, and test it that 
>> would be great.
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>> --Michael
>>
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>
>
> This is now done.   Users of Cobbler 1.4.3 and later can now set 
> "redhat_management_permissive" to 1 to allow their Satellite 
> config_admins and org_admins access to Cobbler.
>
> The install config file comes with appropriate warnings as to whether 
> it's smart to turn this on in a Satellite multi-org setup.  It is off 
> by default, which means no Cobbler Web access
> until it is enabled.
>
> --Michael
>
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Hello Michael,

thank you for that information. I will install the patch today on my 
testserver.

Johannes