[rhn-users] Provide a security certificate.

Peter C. Lai peter at simons-rock.edu
Fri Sep 11 22:45:32 UTC 2009


It's possible you stripped out something you didn't meant to if you overrode
redhat-lsb...

On 2009-09-11 03:08:30PM -0700, Pennington, John wrote:
> 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: rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com [mailto:rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com]
> 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:
> > I tried that, and got the following from the output:
> > 
> > [root at 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: rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com
> [mailto:rhn-users-bounces at redhat.com]
> > 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
> to
> > do to complete the setup for RHN.
> > 
> > Matt
> > 
> > Pennington, John wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > Just installed red-hat 5.2 and when I run the rhn_register I'm
> getting
> > > 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
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > 
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