[Spacewalk-list] osa-dispatcher (1.6 nightly) now requires a password

[Milan Zazrivec]

On Monday 05 December 2011 18:21:33 Scott Worthington wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> There has been a recent enhancement to osa-dispatcher under
> 1.6-nightly that has extended the table rhnPushDispatcher with a
> password field (schema extension found in
> 124-rhnPushDispatcher.sql.oracle /
> 124-rhnPushDispatcher.sql.postgresql).
> 
> I have applied the above schema extension.
> 
> Trying to restart osa-dispatcher now results in start-up failure:
> 
> 2011/12/05 12:10:56 -04:00 31323 0.0.0.0: osad/jabber_lib.__init__
> 2011/12/05 12:10:56 -04:00 31323 0.0.0.0:
> osad/jabber_lib.setup_connection('Connected to jabber server',
> 'somehost.somedomain.com')
> 2011/12/05 12:10:56 -04:00 31323 0.0.0.0:
> osad/jabber_lib.register('ERROR', 'Invalid password')
> 
> What shared password needs to be added & where for osa-dispatcher on
> the Spacewalk server?  Since this is a new table field, do clients
> have to re-register with the the osa-dispatcher?

Clients don't have to do anything.

On the server, you just need to:
* stop osa-dispatcher & jabberd
* update to latest nightly spacewalk-backend* & osa-dispatcher
* rm -f /var/lib/jabberd/db/*
* start jabberd & osa-dispatcher

-MZ