[Spacewalk-list] Changing spacewalk hostname

[Paul Robert Marino]

If you are using FreeIPA Just generate a crl and create a legitimate
cert using Dogtag

On Wed, Nov 21, 2012 at 11:12 AM, William Muriithi
<william.muriithi at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to change a hostname of a server running Spacewalk and I have
> encountered a problem.  My root issue is, I had initially assumed I could
> run spacewalk without SSL. (Its within data centre so I not too sensitive
> and only currently testing it on dev boxes)  So when I initializing the
> database, I did not record the password I used to generate the certificate.
>
> At some point, I changed the spacewalk hostname – needed to do this in order
> to use FreeIPA for authentication and that has broken osad and
> osa-dispatcher communication.  (jabber can no longer connect to the server).
> Took a while to figure out what happened but now I am sure changing hostname
> was a not a good idea.
>
> Luckily, looks like there is a script to go fixing all the hostname hard
> coded in the system configuration - spacewalk-hostname-rename.
> Unfortunately for me, I have forgotten the password I had used to secure the
> certificate  private key. So spacewalk-hostname-rename just bail out after
> trying to load the key.  At the moment, looks like my only solution is to
> redo the whole thing from start again, having learned the importance of the
> certificate used in this project.
>
> I am wondering though, would it be possible to use rhn-ssl-tool to override
> the current private key.  I do understand its kind of defeat the certificate
> security, but have not found any article online that rule out that
> possibility, hence the question
>
> Thanks for advice
>
> William
>
>
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