<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <meta content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" http-equiv="Content-Type"> </head> <body bgcolor="#ffffff" text="#000000"> I don't remember needing a security certificate to run rhn_register for any version of RHEL5 (5.1, 5.2, 5.3, not using 5.4 yet), did you do a default install or customize it? What is the exact command you are typing and the exact response from the computer? Cheers, - Paul Pennington, John wrote: <blockquote cite="mid:8E463C4A59C4844985A50A94E473C5FC36F3C7@win2k3vi.uchastings.local" type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Yeah, I got an ssl complaint when I did that too. Thinking of just trying to re-install the software. Maybe I missed something when I went through it the first time. Thanks, John -----Original Message----- From: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:rhn-users-bounces@redhat.com">rhn-users-bounces@redhat.com</a> [<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:rhn-users-bounces@redhat.com">mailto:rhn-users-bounces@redhat.com</a>] On Behalf Of Peter C. Lai Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 2:03 PM To: Discussions about Red Hat Network (rhn.redhat.com) Subject: Re: [rhn-users] Provide a security certificate. Have you ever tried using rhnreg_ks with the relevant parameters for minimal registration? On 2009-09-11 01:56:06PM -0700, Pennington, John wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">I tried that, and got the following from the output: [root@lists rhn]# yum update Loading "rhnplugin" plugin Loading "security" plugin This system is not registered with RHN. RHN support will be disabled. Skipping security plugin, no data Setting up Update Process Skipping security plugin, no data Skipping security plugin, no data No Packages marked for Update That didn't clue me into to anything but I am new to red-hat, so maybe I'm missing it. Thanks John -----Original Message----- From: <a class="moz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:rhn-users-bounces@redhat.com">rhn-users-bounces@redhat.com</a> </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">[<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="mailto:rhn-users-bounces@redhat.com">mailto:rhn-users-bounces@redhat.com</a>] </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">On Behalf Of Matt Brown Sent: Friday, September 11, 2009 1:21 PM To: Discussions about Red Hat Network (rhn.redhat.com) Subject: Re: [rhn-users] Provide a security certificate. I think if you run: yum update from a command prompt it should spit out some errors on what you need </pre> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">to </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">do to complete the setup for RHN. Matt Pennington, John wrote: </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">Hi all, Just installed red-hat 5.2 and when I run the rhn_register I'm </pre> </blockquote> </blockquote> <pre wrap="">getting </pre> <blockquote type="cite"> <blockquote type="cite"> <pre wrap="">asked to provide a security certificate. I went to the red-hat site and found a script to generate a certificate but that didn't seem to work work and I'm wondering if anyone has any ideas on what I need to do next? Thanks a bunch John </pre> </blockquote> </blockquote> </blockquote> </body> </html>