[Spacewalk-list] Adding GPG keys to the channel

[Avi Miller]

Hi,

> On 19 Apr 2017, at 6:33 am, Daryl Rose <darylrose at outlook.com> wrote:
> 
> What you're saying is that I can setup a channel that I would import the the key into, I'm assuming using rhnpush, and then use that channel to push it to the MySQL servers, is that correct?  

Nope. :) 

What you want to do is create a configuration channel that stores your GPG keys and then use the configuration mechanism to distribute the keys to your servers.

Take a look at the docs here: https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E52668_01/E71078/html/swk24-efx_f33_ls.html

Essentially, a configuration channel is a mechanism whereby Spacewalk can distribute either text or binary files to target client systems. You can create multiple configuration channels and subscribe client systems to one or more of them. You can also specify priorities so that client systems will pull files from the most specific to least specific configuration channel. 

You need to have the rhncfg* RPMs installed on each target system and you need to have the rhn-actions-control enabled so that remote configuration is allowed.

The documentation covers all of this both during provisioning of a new system or on an existing system:

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E52668_01/E71078/html/swk24-lvx_12k_js.html

Hope that helps,
Avi

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