[Spacewalk-list] Channel Access Mode, sharing software channels

Milan Zazrivec mzazrivec at redhat.com
Tue Mar 6 14:57:47 UTC 2012


> Hi!
> I use trusts between organizations to share software channels from one
> organization to the others. Not all organizations should have access to
> all software channels, and this was working fine in Spacewalk 1.5. In
> Spacewalk 1.5, I logged in as the Organization Administrator of the
> "software channel sharing" organization and could add/remove which
> organizations that had access to a specific software channel:
> 
> 1.      Log in
> 2.      Click on the "Channels" tab
> 3.      Click on "Manage Software Channels" menu item
> 4.      Click on the channel I want to modify
> 5.      Scroll down and check that "Organization Sharing" is set to "This
> channel is protected...." 6.      Scroll up and click on the
> "Organizations" link
> 7.      Mark those organizations that should have access to the software
> channel 8.      Click "Modify Access"
> 
> In Spacewalk 1.6, the "Organizations" link in step 6 above doesn't exist,
> and neither does the "Managers" link that was there in 1.5. When setting
> the "Organisation Sharing" on a software channel to "protected", I have to
> choose between allowing all trusted organizations access or no trusted
> organizations get access. I haven't found a way to modify the access so
> that only some trusted organizations get access to a specific software
> channel.
> 
> Is this a deliberate change/removal of functionality? Is there a way to
> enable this functionality in 1.6?

I did not check status of things you're describing in Spacewalk 1.6, but
looking at latest Spacewalk nightly installation, I can see both
"Organizations" and "Managers" links just fine.

-MZ




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