Re: 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@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-----
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> 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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